A pro-democracy organization, Campaign for Dignity in Governance (CDG), has said that the Election Petition Tribunal’s verdict in Lagos never came to it as a surprise because, according to its members, “we saw it coming.”
Reacting to the verdict of the tribunal Monday that affirmed the victory of the state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his Deputy, Olatunji Hamzat for a second term in office, the Convener and National President of the group, Comrade Razaq Olokoba in a statement in Ikeja Monday after the tribunal’s pronouncement said, “there was never a day or moment that we ever expected something different because from all indications, the verdict was confirmation of the people’s love for Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Hamzat.”
According to the statement, before the election, Sanwo-Olu and his team did not put anybody in doubt that the people have made the right choice through his superlative performance to the admiration of the populace who overwhelmingly gave the governor another term for the sake of continuity to guarantee completion of projects, adding that, “even the verdict, we are already looking beyond it.”
Our concern now, the statement read further “is to support Sanwo-Olu’s team to achieve his promised better second term because dividends of democracy, ala, Sanwo-Olu’s style is not the type the people would be fed up with” because “we always play Oliver Twist by asking for more.”
It is no more news but part of history on Monday when the Tribunal adjudicating over the petition filed in by a couple of opposition parties and their candidates contesting the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Obafemi Hamzat as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
It was the petition that the Tribunal headed by Justice Mikhail Abdullahi rounded off Monday confirming the victory of Governor Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Hamzat.
