Rhodes-Vivour gets permission to inspect BVAS, others
The Lagos State governorship election petition tribunal has granted request by the Labour Party and its candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, to inspect materials used in the March 18 election in the state.
This followed a motion filed on March 24 seeking an order granting leave to the LP and its candidate to move and for the tribunal to hear and determine the present application outside the pre-hearing season.
The respondents included the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sawno-Olu; the All Progressives Congress, and the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The motion also sought an order directing the third respondent by itself, agents, officers and/or privies to permit the petitioners/applicants acting through their agents, privies, experts and or counsels to inspect the originals from INEC from EC8A, EC8A(I), EC8VP, EC8A(II), EC8B, ECB8(I), EC8B(II), EC8C, EC8C(I), EC8(II), EC8D, EC8D(II), EC84, EC25, EC40, EC50 and all other electoral forms and other relevant documents and to obtain from the third respondent certified true copies of same and all other and all other documents in the custody of the third respondent.
This was disclosed in a document shared on Twitter by Rhodes-Vivour, who captioned it, “Today we got our order to inspect the BVAS and all electoral materials.”
The LP candidate had contested against Sanwo-Olu in the governorship election but lost after polling 312, 329 votes compared to the 762,134 votes gotten by the incumbent governor who was later declared as the winner by INEC.
The Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Olajide Adediran, followed in third place with 62,449 votes.
