Jandor asks tribunal to declare him winner of Lagos gov poll

Says Sanwo-Olu submitted fake GCE result, Rhodes-Vivour breaches Electoral Act

Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for Lagos State Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor) on Tuesday said the party had submitted a petition before the state election tribunal seeking to disqualify Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress and nullify his governorship victory over alleged fake GCE result.

He also sought the disqualification of the Labour Party candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, for allegedly failing to comply with the Electoral Act 2022 requirements for the governorship poll.

The PDP candidate asked that he should be declared the winner of the election.

He claimed the fake exam result was submitted to the Independent National Election Commission during his first-term governorship bid.

He stated this in an interview he granted the Arise News TV.

According to Adediran, Sanwo-Olu failed to attach a copy of the GCE O’Level result he claimed to obtain in 1981 along with his form EC9 as required by the Electoral Act 2022 for March 18 governorship election.

Sanwo-Olu was declared the winner of the election.

He said, “This development sparked a curiosity, with Adediran and PDP applying for the CTC of Governor Sanwo-Olu 2019 from CF001.”

The petition, marked EPT/LAG/GOV/01/2023 dated April 7, also said the APC did not comply with the INEC timetable and schedule of activities for the 2023 general election which stipulated that all political parties must give 21 days notice to commission before the conduct of the primary election.

While INEC is the first respondent, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Obafemi Hamzat – his deputy governorship candidate APC, the LP governorship candidate, and the LP respectively are the second, third, fouth, fifth and sixth respondents.

The petition also stated, “It was then discovered that a statement of result issued by Ijebu Ife Community Grammar School, Ijebu-Ife for May/June 1981 GCE O’Level examination with examination number 17624/118, which he submitted for his first term election as governor of the state was not confirmed by WAEC. “When Jandor and PDP approached WAEC for confirmation, they were directed to purchase the scratch card for verification of the WAEC result scratch card, which then confirmed the results as not emanating from WAEC. It came back to be a fake result.”

 

Jandor asks tribunal to declare him winner of Lagos gov poll