An
Election Petition Tribunal in Lagos on Wednesday struck out a petition
challenging the victory of the Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode
in the governorship election of April 11.
The chairman of
the three-man Petition Tribunal, Justice Muhhamed Sirajo, ruled on the
case after Mr Ambode’s lawyer Mr Wole Olanipekun, requested that the
tribunal should strike out the petition for being incompetent.
However,
Mr Agbaje’s lawyer, Clement Onwuenwunor, had argued otherwise but his
argument did not stand, as the Tribunal upheld the victory of Mr Ambode,
bringing an end to the Tribunal sitting that had started in May.
Mr
Agbaje had alleged irregularities during the election which, according
to his petition, breached the provisions of the Independent National
Electoral Commission’s approved guidelines for the polls.
In the
petition, the party and its candidate had requested that the petitioner
should compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to
make available all materials used for the election, but the tribunal
refused to grant their request.
It, however, granted a request
to allow the petitioner inspect the materials used specifically for the
governorship elections in Lagos State.
The Independent National
Electoral Commission declared Ambode, a candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, the winner of the election on April 12,
announcing that he polled 811,994 votes, with the runner-up and the
candidate of the PDP, Mr Agbaje, polling 659,788 votes.
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