UPDATE: TRIBUNAL ORDERS SUBSTITUTED SERVICE ON SANWO-OLU, AS HE EVADED SERVICES
The motion ex parte made before it by the Labour Party’s candidate for governor, Gbadegbo Patrick Rhodes-Vivour, for a substituted service on the state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, was granted by the Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which is in session at the Special Offenses Court facilities in Ikeja.
Gbadegbo Rhodes-Vivour had contested the results of the March 25 governorship election, in which Sanwo-Oluolu had been declared the victor by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
At the sitting of the tribunal on Monday, Rhodes-Vivour, and the Labour Party, through their counsel, Mr. Olagbade Benson, pointed out that Sanwo-olu has been evading efforts by bailiff to serve him with the petition.
Governor Sanwo-olu refused to collect the document from the bailiff when the court official got to his office to serve him according to the information that was presented
Benson, the plaintiff in petition number, EPT/LAG/GOV/04/2023, is praying the court to grant the Petitioner/Applicant leave to serve the Petition and other processes in this suit on the Governor and his deputy through substituted means by posting same via DHL Courier Services or any other recognized courier service company to the Respondent’s official residence at Lagos House, Marina, Lagos.
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