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Rhodes-Vivour Bows Out In Lagos Election Tribunal, Closes Case Against Sanwo-Olu, Hamzat

Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, on Tuesday, closed his case against the winning of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu before the Lagos State election tribunal sitting in Ikeja.

BrandNewsDay reports that the Lagos State Labour Party governorship candidate in the last election, Rhodes-Vivour, at the reconvened hearing at the Lagos Election Tribunal court, through his counsel, Idowu Benson, informed the three-justice tribunal headed by Arum Ashom that the petitioner was closing his case.

The LP candidate who is also challenging the eligibility of Sanwo-Olu’s deputy, Obafemi Hazmat, to contest on the grounds that he allegedly renounced his Nigerian citizenship and swore allegiance to the United States of America.

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Rhodes-Vivour Bows Out In Lagos Election Tribunal

Ten witnesses had testified in the petition of Rhodes-Vivour.

The council also tendered a Certified True Copy (CTC) of the INEC Form EC9 – an affidavit containing the particulars of a candidate – which was hand-filled by Mr Hamzat and had been front-loaded by the counsel for the fourth respondent, the All Progressives Congress (APC), before the tribunal.

All the counsel for the four respondents objected to the admissibility of the document tendered by the petitioner.

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The tribunal, however, admitted the document into evidence and marked it as Exhibit PE713.

The APC counsel, Noris Quakers (SAN), said the CTC tendered by the petitioner was warehoused by the first respondent and did not form a part of the court records.

“It is only a document signed by the Independent National Electoral Commission that can be tendered.

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“We will further argue why this document should not be admitted in the final written address,” he said.

The INEC counsel, Eric Obigor, informed the tribunal that he would pick a date to open their defence while commending the petitioner for closing his case.

The tribunal ordered the first respondent to open his case on the next adjourned date, but he prayed the court for more time to put his house in order.

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“We will be taking a date to open our case and commend the petitioner for closing its case even though it was unexpected.

“At the moment, for me to secure the attendance of my witness, I can not get them by tomorrow.

“I will need to do consultations with the stakeholders of my client.

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“A day will enable me to put my house in order,” Mr Obigor said.

Counsel to Messrs Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat, Bode Olanipekun (SAN), also commended the petitioner for closing his case.

The proceeding was stalled on Monday due to the health reasons of the LP witness.

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