A pro-democracy organization, Campaign for Dignity in Governance (CDG), has said that the Election Petition Tribunal\u2019s verdict in Lagos never came to it as a surprise because, according to its members, \u201cwe saw it coming.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u2019s pronouncement said, \u201cthere was never a day or moment that we ever expected something different because from all indications, the verdict was confirmation of the people\u2019s love for Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Hamzat.\u201d<\/p>\n
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, \u201ceven the verdict, we are already looking beyond it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Our concern now, the statement read further \u201cis to support Sanwo-Olu\u2019s team to achieve his promised better second term because dividends of democracy, ala, Sanwo-Olu\u2019s style is not the type the people would be fed up with” because \u201cwe always play Oliver Twist by asking for more.\u201d<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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