Election: Supreme Court Reserves Judgement On PDP, LP Suits Challenging Sanwo-Olu’s Victory

In two appeals contesting the election of Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu, the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party have asked the Supreme Court to postpone making a decision.

After considering the petitions of Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-favour, the Labour Party’s candidate for governor of Lagos state, and Mr. Azeez Adediran, the People’s Democratic Party candidate, the five-member panel headed by Justice John Okoro reserved it.

In November, Sanwo-Olu and Obafemi Hamzat were reinstated as the governor and deputy governor of Lagos State when the Court of Appeal in Lagos upheld the tribunal’s decision.

Sanwo-Olu had polled 762,134 votes to defeat his close challenger, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP), who scored 312,329 votes. Abdulazeez Adediran, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), came a distant third with 62,449 votes.

Not satisfied, the LP and PDP candidates approached the Lagos State Election Petitions Tribunal to nullify Sanwo-Olu’s victory.

In its ruling on September 25, the tribunal dismissed Adediran and Rhodes-Vivour’s suit seeking to nullify the victory of Sanwo-Olu at the poll.

Displeased with the verdict, on October 13, Jandor filed 34 grounds of appeal challenging the judgment of the tribunal.

Ruling on the appeal on Wednesday, the appellate court dismissed the suit filed by the Labour Party’s governorship candidate for lacking in merit.

In a unanimous decision, the three-man pane led by Justice by Justice Yargata Nimpa affirmed Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat as Governor and Deputy Governor of Lagos State