The supreme court has affirmed Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the
duly elected governor of Lagos state.
An eight-member panel of the apex court dismissed the appeal
filed by Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP)
in the 2023 election.
In the main issue for determination, Rhodes-Vivour had
contended that Kadri Hamzat, deputy governor of Lagos, was not qualified to be
sponsored by the All Progressives Congress (APC) having renounced his Nigerian
citizenship and taken up that of the US.
However, the court
held that there is no credible evidence to show that the deputy governor renounced
his Nigerian citizenship.
The court held that no provision in the constitution strips
a Nigerian citizen by birth of his citizenship even if he voluntarily takes up
the citizenship of another country.
More to follow…
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