Security has been beefed up at the Roseline Omotosho
Courthouse, Ikeja, as the Lagos State
Election Petitions Tribunal is set to deliver judgement in petitions
challenging the election of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
The Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate for the
state in the March 18 poll, Abdulazeez Adediran, also known as Jandor, and his
Labour Party counterpart, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, filed the petitions.
Security operatives took over the main entrance of the
courthouse, screening journalists,
lawyers and others before they could gain entrance.
Securing operatives prevented a number of people from
entering the premises.
Adediran, in his petition, alleged that the governor
presented a forged West African School Certificate to the Independent National
Electoral Commission.
Adediran also accused Lagos deputy governor, Kadri Hazmat,
of not including an oath declaration in the INEC Nomination Form EC9.
He added that APC did not comply with the Electoral Act when
nominating Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat.
Rhodes-Vivour, in his petition, also challenged the
eligibility of Hazmat to contest on the grounds that he allegedly renounced his
Nigerian citizenship and swore allegiance to the United States of America.
NAN
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