In a petition submitted to the Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, the Peoples Democratic Party and its governorship candidate for 2023, Abdul-Azeez Adeniran, commonly known as Jandor, accuse Babajide Sanwo-Olu of having a false West African Examination Council, or WAEC, result.

The Labour Party and Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the party's candidate in the election, were joined in the suit by the petitioner, who also provided justifications for the disqualification of Obafemi Hamzat, the APC candidate for governor.

The petitioner charged the Labour Party candidate of having multiple party affiliations at the time he ran for governor of Lagos State.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, is listed as the first respondent, while Sanwo-Olu, Hamzat, APC, Rhodes-Vivour, and Labour Party are listed as the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth respondents, respectively, in the tribunal document that our reporter has seen.

The petitioners claim that the March 18 governorship election result left a lot to be desired due to flagrant violations of existing laws and subsidiary legislation on INEC's election-related standards.

The PDP contended in the petition with the marking EPT/LAG/GOV/01/2023 and the date April 7 that the second, third, and fifth responders should be disqualified because they were not eligible to run as candidates at the time of the election.

According to the PDP, "The 2nd and 3rd Respondents, although not lawfully sponsored and not eligible, campaigned for the position of Governor of Lagos State, the subject of this Petition, along with the 1st Petitioner and others."

"Similarly, the 1st Petitioner and others ran for the position of Governor of Lagos State, the subject of this Petition, along with the 5th and 6th Respondents, who were not lawfully sponsored nor qualified.

The 2nd Respondent, who was improperly sponsored by the 4th Respondent, was declared the victor of the election for governor of Lagos State by the 1st Respondent after the election.

The PDP claimed in their period that the 5th respondent, who was also not legally sponsored by the 6th respondent, received the second-highest number of votes in the election for governor of Lagos State.

The statement said, "Contrary to this requirement, the Lagos state chapter of the APC through her letter dated 24th May 2022 notified the State Resident Electoral Commissioner of the party primary election held on 26th May 2022, with information of the said primary's site.

According to the Election Act of 2022, it stated, "The notification from the state chapter of the APC was consequently illegitimate, null, and void."

It was then discovered that a Statement of Result issued by Ijebu Ife Community Grammar School, Ijebu-Ife for May/June 1981 GCE O' Level Examination with examination number 17624/118, which he submitted for his first term election as governor of the state, was not confirmed by WAEC, the petitioner stated. This was a matter of fraud warranting disqualification.

The PDP claimed in its petition that when JANDOR and PDP asked WAEC for confirmation, they were instructed to buy the scratch card for verification of the WAEC result. This confirmed the results as not coming from WAEC and revealed them to be a fake result.

The petitioner claimed that the Labour Party candidate had joined the PDP before choosing the Labour Party governorship forms for the election, which rendered his nomination illegitimate.

Additionally, as of June 18, 2022, when Rhodes-Vivour asserted under testimony that he had enrolled as a member of the Labour Party, he was still a PDP member.

The petition from the Lagos PDP stated that "documentary proof and newspaper report proving his participation in the screening process for the running mate to the Lagos PDP governorship candidate, Dr Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran (JANDOR), on June 22, 2022, was supplied."

Since the candidate for governor of Lagos State is not permitted to be a member of more than one political party at the time of being sponsored as a candidate for the general election, his nomination is unlawful, in accordance with the Electoral Act.

Remember that according to INEC, Sanwo-Olu defeated Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party, who received 312,329 votes, to win the election with 762,134 votes.

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