Tribunal To Deliver Judgment On Lagos Guber Election, Today

The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Lagos will today deliver judgment in the suits challenging the election of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
The Labour Party’s governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate, Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, are challenging the victory of Sanwo-Olu at the March 18 governorship election.
The Justice Arum Ashom-led panel communicated this message to all the parties in the election disputes on Saturday.
The Tide reports that on August 12, lawyers in the petitions adopted their final written addresses before the tribunal.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the March 18 governorship election.
Sanwo-Olu had won the election by a landslide, defeating Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party, who came second.
The Lagos State Governor polled 762,134 votes to beat Rhodes-Vivour, who scored 312,329 votes.
Jide Adediran (Jandor) of the PDP came a distant third, polling 62,449 votes, while the candidate of Allied Peoples’ Movement (APM), Funmilayo Kupoluyi, polled 884 and the candidate of Action Peoples Party (APP), Abiola Adeyemi, garnered 259 votes.
Jandor and Rhodes-Vivour, separately had asked the tribunal to nullify governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s re-election and declare them the winners.
Subsequently, on Wednesday, May 24, the tribunal dismissed the petitions filed by the APM and APP against the victory of Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Obafemi Hamzat, in the March 18 governorship election.
The petitions of the APM and APP were dismissed by the Chairman of the three-man Tribunal, Justice Arum Ashom, after the petitioners withdrew them.