The Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow Mr Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour to inspect the materials used by the commission for the conduct of the March 18, 2023 governorship election in Lagos.
Rhodes-Vivour, the Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in the election, is contesting the outcome of the poll in which incumbent Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared winner of the election by INEC.
In the court document shared by the LP candidate on his Twitter handle on Wednesday, dated March 29, 2023, sighted by metrowatchxtra, while Rhodes-Vivour and the LP are the petitioners, Sanwo-Olu, the APC and INEC are respondents.
The Tribunal granted; “An ORDER granting leave to the petitioners/appellants(Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and LP) to move and for the tribunal to hear and determine the present application outside the pre-hearing session.
“An ORDER directing the 3rd respondent(INEC) by itself, agents, officers and/or privies to permit the petitioners/appellants acting through their agents, provies, experts and or counsel to inspect the originals of INEC forms EC8A, EC8A(1), EC8VP, EC8A(II), EC8B, EC8B(I), EC8B(II), EC8C, EC8C(I), EC8(II), EC8D, EC8D(II), EC84, EC40, EC50 and all other electoral forms and other relevant documents and to obtain from the 3rd respondent certfied true copies of same and all other electoral forms and other relevant documents in the custody of the 3rd respondent(INEC).”
