The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, thus effectively putting him in charge of the state till 2027.
Instructively, Sanwo-Olu’s victory was upheld by the tribunal and Appeal Court in the state.
The Labour Party candidate in the election, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour’s main grouse is that Sanwo-Olu’s running, Obafemi Hamzat was not qualified for the election.
He claimed that the deputy governor had renounced his citizenship as a Nigerian.
The court held that Sanwo-Olu’s deputy is a Nigerian by birth
The court added that renouncation of citizenship of a citizens by birth must be registered by the Nigerian president, adding that the appellant did not provide an evidence to that effect.
The court, therefore, dismissed the appeal by the Labour Party candidate for lacking in merit.
Abdulazeez Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, of the PDP on his part, contended that the name Sanwo-Olu submitted to INEC was different from that contained in his WAEC certificate.
The apex court while dismissing appeal described its as “academic”.
The dismissal of the appeal and that of the Labour Party means that Sanwo-Olu is the duly elected governor of Lagos state till 2027 when his second term in office would come to an end.
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