Olukayode Doherty, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the Lagos State House of Assembly Amuwo-Odofin II Constituency election, has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal.
The court maintained a previous decision made by the Election Petition Tribunal, which had dismissed Doherty and pronounced Rauf Age-Suleiman, the candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC), the election’s victor.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was mandated by the tribunal to hand over Sulaiman’s certificate of return as the election’s victor.
The court ruled that if a candidate did not fully engage in the election process, they are not eligible to be declared the winner under the Electoral Act of 2022.
