The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Lagos State in the recently concluded gubernatorial election, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour has called for the disqualification of his opponent and Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu for allegedly voting on Election Day without a permanent voter card during the highly controversial polls.
He said that the incumbent Governor should be disqualified and subsequently sent to one year imprisonment for allegedly committing electoral fraud.
The gubernatorial candidate, in a tweet on his tweeter handle which was sighted by Africa Today News, New York, alleged that the governor never had his PVC and that he voted without same on the day of the election, calling for a legal action against Sanwo-Olu.
Rhodes-Vivour tweeted: ‘According to Electoral Act, Sanwo-Olu must be convicted and send to one year imprisonment and 100,000 fine for committing electoral fraud and malpractice.’
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The LP candidate had earlier hosted a tweeter space on Monday where our correspondent attended where he said that it was tabled in the Lagos election tribunal that the governor voted without a PVC and thus committed and offense which the Electoral Act placed as punishment one year imprisonment or a fine of N100,000 or both.
‘He voted without a PVC and it was tabled today (Monday). All eyes are on judiciary to ensure that this fraud never go unpunished,’ he has said.
In a related development, the Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Obafemi Hamzat, has denied renouncing his Nigerian citizenship contrary to reports flying around.
According to a statement by the deputy governor’s media office, Hamzat described claims that he dumped his Nigerian citizenship as ‘misleading and inaccurate’.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that last week, an immigration lawyer in the United States, Olubusayo Fasidi, told the Lagos Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal that Hamzat took an oath of allegiance in the US to renounce his Nigerian citizenship.