BREAKING: APPEAL COURT DISMISSES JANDOR’S APPEAL AGAINST SANWO-OLU’S VICTORY
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By Aishat Momoh. O.
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, on Wednesday dismissed the appeal of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Lagos State, Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran (Jandor) over the electoral victory of Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and his deputy, Obafemi Hamzat.
The panel affirmed the judgement of the tribunal that upheld the victory of Sanwo-Olu as the elected governor of Lagos, in the March 11 election.
In a unanimous decision delivered on Wednesday, the three-member panel led by Yargata Nimpar dismissed the grounds on appeal raised by Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, that say he couldn’t complain of being denied fair hearing at the lower court having filed his additional witness statement on oath outside the stipulated time.
Also the court held that the appellant was a meddlesome interloper in challenging the emergence of Messrs Sanwo-Olu and hamzat at the primary exercise of their party, the all Progressives Congress, adding that he was neither an aspirant or a member of the apc.
The court added that the issue of nomination , sponsorship and qualification of a candidate presumed to have won an election are pre-election matters, which ought not to have come before the trubunal but a regular court.
On the issue that the governor forged his secondary school certificate, the court held that the Nigerian constitution doesn’t provide that a candidate need attach his certificate in his forms. It also found that the appellant failed to establish forgery as alleged, by not tendering the presumed original certificate along with what was said to be fake.
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