Labour Party’s Candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour Has Legal Issues with Electoral Act, Supreme Court – Jandor
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Abdul-Azeez Adediran aka Jandor, said his Labour Party’s counterpart, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour has multiple legal issues over his candidacy which portend danger.
Jandor said this may damage his electoral value and rubbish any alliances forged with the candidate and his party in Lagos State post election.
While speaking to Channel TV on possible collaboration between the two top opposition parties in the state, the PDP candidate said though his party was willing to consider alliances, legal bottlenecks with Gbadebo’s candidacy may create a snag in post-election litigation.
Jandor explained that when talks of an alliance began “flying around,” the PDP tabled the matter, “even though we [Gbadebo and I] haven’t sat together to discuss it”.
According to him, the party decided to analyse every issue critically.
“We now discovered that the Labour Party candidate still has a case on his candidacy which is currently at the Supreme Court, we looked at it again that the Labour Party candidate also has an issue with Section 77 of the Electoral Act, which says if you’re leaving a particular party to another one, you must have been there, at least, for one month, that is, the party register would have been with INEC 30 days before that party primary,” he said.
Explaining that the legal issue could come up in post-election litigation, he said he would rather not be “sitting on a keg of gunpowder”.
Jandor added, “For us, we don’t have a problem. But knowing full well who we’re dealing with; we know what can happen – there’s no point sitting on a keg of gunpowder.
“So, for us, we want an alliance; we don’t have any issue with it. But we must put our best foot forward. We must make sure that we go into this election without any snag whatsoever.”
