The Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the victory of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State at the March 2023 governorship election.
A panel of Justices of the Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the governor’s election, after dismissing the separate appeals filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party with their governorship candidates.
Both the PDP candidate, Abdul-Azeez Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, and Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party had anchored their appeals on their prime argument that Mr Sanwo-Olu’s nomination as a candidate for the election was invalidated by the fact that his running mate, Obafemi Hamzat, was ineligible to run with him because he holds dual citizenship of Nigeria and the United States.
