Rhodes-Vivour Gbadebo, the 2023 Lagos State Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate, closed his appeal against Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s victory in the March 18 election on Tuesday.
Rhodes-Vivour is also questioning the legitimacy of Lagos State Deputy Governor Obafemi Hazmat to run for office, claiming that he renounced his Nigerian citizenship and swore loyalty to the United States of America.
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At the resumed hearing before the governorship election petition tribunal on Tuesday, Mr Idowu Benson, the petitioner’s counsel, informed the three-judge panel chaired by Arum Ashom that the petitioner was closing his case.
Ten witnesses testified in the Labour Party candidate’s petition.
The counsel also produced a Certified True Copy (CTC) of the INEC Form EC9 – an affidavit providing a candidate’s particulars – which Hamzat had hand-filled and had been front-loaded before the tribunal by the counsel for the fourth respondent, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The counsel for the four respondents all objected to the petitioner’s document being included.
The tribunal, on the other hand, admitted the paper into evidence and designated it as Exhibit PE713.
Mr Noris Quakers (SAN), counsel for the APC, stated that the CTC supplied by the petitioner was warehoused by the first respondent and did not form part of the court documents.
There is no document before this tribunal. It’s just a piece of paper signed by the Independent National Electoral Commission that can’t be tendered.
We will argue further on why this document should not be admitted in the final written address, he said.
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Mr Eric Obigor, counsel for INEC, told the tribunal that he would set a date to begin their defence while commending the petitioner for completing his case.
The tribunal ordered that the first respondent commence his case on the next adjourned date, but he requested additional time to get his affairs in order.
 governorship candidate, closed his appeal against Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu's victory in the March 18 election on Tuesday.){kind=link}