BREAKING: Big Trouble For APC, Labour Party As PDP Releases Strong Evidence Against Their Candidates
- The PDP and its guber candidate in Lagos, Abdul-Azeez Adeniran, AKA Jandor, have submitted a petition to the governorship election petition tribunal in the state over March 18 poll results
- Jandor and the PDP are demanding the disqualification of Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the APC and his Labour Party's counterpart, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, over non-compliance to the electoral law and INEC guidelines
- Sanwo-Olu polled the highest votes and was declared the winner of the election, while Rhodes-Vivour came second, and Jandor took the third position
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Ikeja, Lagos - The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate in Lagos, Abdul-Azeez Adeniran, popularly referred to as Jandor, have submitted a petition to the Lagos state governorship election petition tribunal on the outcome of the March 18 poll.
According to The Tribune, the PDP and Jandor are asking the court to disqualify Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who was declared the winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
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The umbrella party and its guber candidate are also calling for the disqualification of their Labour Party opponent in the poll, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, alleging that both Sanwo-Olu and Rhodes-Vivour did not comply with the Electoral Act 2022.
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Sanwo-Olu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), polled the highest number of votes; Rhodes-Vivour came second, while Jandor held the third position in the governorship election.
The petition, which was dated Friday, April 7, was Marked EPT/LAG/GOV/01/2023.
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Jandor and the PDP are the petitioner and are challenging the outcome of the March 18 governorship election, citing a substantial lack of compliance with the INEC guidelines and the electoral law.
In the petition, INEC is the first respondent, Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Hamzat Kadri Obafemi and the APC are listed as the second, third and fourth respondents.
Other respondents are Rhodes-Vivour and the Labour Party, who was listed as the fifth and sixth respondents, respectively.
"APC is now the leading party in the South East": Tinubu's man drops breakdown
Legit.ng earlier reported that Festus Keyamo, a prominent figure in the APC/Bola Tinubu presidential campaign council, has claimed that the ruling party is now the dominant party in the southeast.
The minister claimed that despite all the noise of the Labour Party and Peter Obi, the APC was able to dislodge the PDP, who had taken the people of the region for granted over time.
According to Keyamo, the APC will still have 2 states of the region under its control, while the PDP, APGA and Labour Party will have one each.
Source: Legit.ng
