THE Labour Party (LP) candidate in Lagos Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour has obtained a court order to inspect the Biometric Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and all electoral materials used in the March 18 governorhip election.
Rhodes-Vivour disclosed this in a tweet on his official Twitter handle on Wednesday, March 29.
“Today we got our order to inspect the BVAS and all electoral materials,” he tweeted.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had on Monday, March 20, declared Sanwo-Olu, the winner of the governorship poll.
He polled 762,134 valid votes to defeat his closest rival, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP), who got 312,329 votes.
Rhodes-Vivour has long disagreed with the outcome of the election and promised to challenge it in court.
The ICIR reports that there were pockets of suppression, ethnic discrimination, political thuggery, and physical attacks on voters, electoral staff and security personnel during the election.
The stakes were high in the electoral race to the Lagos State governor’s office at Alausa, Ikeja.
The governorship election held on Saturday, March 18, was keenly contested among Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP).
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