How the state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and his wife, Ibijoke, cast their ballots in the most recent election has been made public by a witness to the Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal.
Despite having invalid voter identification cards, Sanwo-Olu and his wife Ibijoke were permitted to cast ballots before the tribunal presided over by Justice Arum Ashom, according to Vanguard.
This statement was provided on June 26 by Dayo Isreal, a representative of the Labour Party (LP), who was called to testify in the petition filed by Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the LP candidate in the March 18 election, seeking to overturn the election results of Governor Sanwo-Olu and his deputy.
The witness informed the court that he worked as an agent for the LP for Unit 006, Ward 15, Lagos Island Local Government in the Governorship Election while being led in as evidence by the Rhodes-Vivour’s lead attorney, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Olumide Ayeni, according to a Channels TV report.
”I observed that the card reader showed their cards to be invalid but Sanwo-Olu and his wife were allowed to cast their votes and this is against INEC’s electoral process,”
Israel said before the tribunal.
The Guardian story corroborated the witness’s claims that he was assaulted that day by APC supporters and that he could tell by the way they spoke that they were APC members.
He added,
“During casting of votes, 4 of them beat me up. I ran away, changed my clothes to disguise myself and came back to monitor the counting of votes.”
The LP official, however, noted that there were cases of multiple casting of votes but INEC officials failed to intervene.