The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship and the Labour Party (LP) governorship candidates have filed a petition against the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Lagos State Governor-elect, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
The PDP candidate, Abdul-Azeez Adediran known as Jandor, and the LP candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vigour, separately asked the tribunal to nullify Sanwo-Olu’s return and declare them the winner of the poll.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Lagos State Election Petition Tribunal had received a total of 48 petitions in respect of the 2023 elections held on Feb. 25 and March 11.
The petitions were pasted on the wall of the Rosaline Omotosho Courthouse, Ikeja, venue of the tribunal sitting.
A breakdown of petition against Sanwo-Olu showed that four petitions were filed to challenge the governorship election.
Others are the Allied People’s Movement (APM) and the Action People’s Party (APP).
Rhodes-Vivour, who filed a sole petitioner, listed three grounds on which his petition was based.
He alleged that Sanwo-Olu was not qualified to contest election at the time the election took place.
NAN
