ShareOn Monday, June 19, the trial and the main hearing in the petition filed by the Lagos state governorship candidate of the PDP in the March 18 governorship election Dr. Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor ,against Governor Sanwo-Olu of APC and Labour Party’s Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour began after the All Progressives Congress, APC had failed in it bid to have the petition struck out by the tribunal on June 12, 2023.
Jandor told the tribunal that his petition against the APC and Labour Party in the March 18 election was due to the invalid sponsorship of their candidates by the duo of APC and Labour as a result of their non compliance to section 82 of the Electoral Act which says a political party must give a 21-day notice to INEC before holding any conference, congress or convention, for the purpose of nominating candidates for election, while penalty on failure to do so was explicitly reeled out in section...
Jandor stated further at the tribunal hearing, that the form EC9 submitted by APC deputy Governorship Candidate, Obafemi Hamzat, contravened the provision of this law, as it was submitted without the said declaration of oath page, which according to the Electoral Act, is the only page in the Form EC9 that validates sponsorship of a candidate which also gives an indication that the political party has fulfilled all constitutional requirements for sponsoring a candidate in that election.
Above testimony by Jandor and all documents tendered in evidence indicated that as at June 20th when Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour claimed in his 11th November counter affidavit deposed to that he obtained governorship nomination form of Labour Party, he was still a member of the PDP. A thorough check through the electoral act revealed that APC and Labour Party who based their objection and argument on the fact that Jandor/PDP petition is a pre-election matter, banking on section 84 which says “Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act or rules of a political party, an aspirant who complains that any of the provisions of this Act and the guidelines of a political party have not been complied with in the selection or nomination of a candidate of a political party for...
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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