The Supreme Court has officially affirmed the election victory of the governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
An eight-member panel of the apex court struck out the appeal lodged by Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the last election. Continue Reading…
Mr Rhodes-Vivour had argued that Obafemi 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 Sanwo-Olu’s deputy is a Nigerian by birth.
It ruled that renouncation of citizenship of a citizens by birth must be registered by the Nigerian president, adding that the appellant did not provide an evidence to that effect.
The court, however, dismissed the appeal by the Labour Party Candidate for lacking in merit. Continue Reading…
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