The Supreme Court on Tuesday, upheld the
election of the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, of the All Progressives
Congress.
In a unanimous judgment of a seven-man panel of the
apex court, led by Justice Tanko Muhammad, the Supreme Court struck out the
appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate in the April 11, 2015 poll,
Mr. Olujimi Agbaje, for incompetence.
In its judgment, read by Justice Clara Ogunbiyi on
Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck out Agbaje’s appeal by upholding Ambode’s
preliminary objection contending that the appeal was incompetent and academic.
The apex court upheld the argument by Ambode’s lawyer,
Olabode Olanipenikun, that the appeal had been rendered incompetent and
academic, by the virtue of the fact that the PDP refused to join Agbaje to
appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal, which had earlier upheld
the judgment of the Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, to
uphold Ambode’s election.
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