The Supreme Court has upheld the election of the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Sanwo-Olu’s victory was certified by the tribunal and Appeal Court in the state.
The esseence of the case of the Labour Party candidate in the election, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, is on Sanwo-Olu’s running mate’s qualification.
Rhodes-Vivour had claimed that the deputy governor, Obafemi Hamzat, had rejected his citizenship as a Nigerian.
But the court had held that Sanwo-Olu’s deputy was and still is Nigerian by birth.
Additionally, the court said that the renunciation of citizenship of a citizens by birth must be registered by the Nigerian president, and as such, the appellant had not given an evidence to that effect.
Finally, the court dismissed the appeal by the Labour Party Candidate for lacking merit.
Abdulazeez Adediran, aka Jandor, of the People’s Democratic Party, –PDP on his part had contended that the name Sanwo-Olu submitted to the electoral body, INEC, was different from that contained in his WAEC certificate.
The apex court while dismissing the Rhodes-Vivour’s appeal had described its as “academic”.
The dismissal of the appeal and that of the Labour Party means that Sanwo-Olu remains the elected governor of Lagos state.
