Election
Supreme Court affirms Sanwo-Olu’s election
The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
His victory was upheld by the tribunal and Appeal Court in the state.
The kernel of the case of the Labour Party candidate in the election, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, is Lagos state governor running mate qualification.
He claimed that the deputy governor, Obafemi Hamzat, had renounced his citizenship as a Nigerian.
The court held that Hamzat is a Nigerian by birth.
The court added that the Nigerian president must register the renunciation of citizenship of a citizen by birth and that the appellant had not provided proof to that effect.
The court, however, dismissed the appeal by the Labour Party candidate for lacking 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.
