The tribunal reserves judgment in petitions against Sanwo-Olu’s re-election.

On Saturday, the three-man Tribunal led by Justice Arum Ashom said it would communicate the date for the judgment to the parties in the petition.

Ashom made this known after counsel to the parties adopted final written addresses.

Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP) and Abdulazeez Adeniran (a.k.a. Jandor) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is challenging the re-election of Sanwo-Olu and Hazmat of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is the first respondent in the petition, while Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat are the second and third respondents, respectively.

APC is the fourth respondent.

The governorship election took place on March 18.

The two petitioners were absent in court on Saturday, but Hamzat was present.

While adopting his final written address, snow-Olu’s counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), asked the court to dismiss the petitions for lack of merit.

He described the petitions as an academic exercise.

He said there was no reference to the second respondent in the addresses of the petitioners, adding that the talks dwelt on the third respondent.

“They have abandoned their petitions and any issues against the second respondent.”

He said that the non-qualification of the deputy governor for the election, as claimed by Rhodes-Vivour, had no substance.

Olanipekun argued that the allegation of Hamzat’s renunciation of Nigerian citizenship and swearing the oath of allegiance to the U.S. was not sufficiently proven.

Similarly, counsel to APC, Mr Abiodun Owonikoko (SAN), submitted that the petitioners did not duly prove the argument about Hamzat’s citizenship.

In adopting his final written address, counsel to INEC, Mr Charles Edosonwan (SAN), asked the Tribunal to dismiss the petitions for lack of evidence.

He said: “One of the issues raised by the petitioners is whether the election was conducted in substantial compliance with the Electoral Act.

“We say they have provided no proof to show it wasn’t.

“A petition erected on such an allegation was sought to be proven by 10 witnesses in a state with 13,325 polling units.

“The petition is materially challenged,” he said.

Mr Olatunji Benson, counsel to LP and its Governorship Candidate, Rhodes-Vivour, asked the Tribunal to uphold his clients’ position that Hamzat did not qualify to contest the election.

He prayed the Tribunal to remove Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat from office and declare Rhodes-Vivour, the governor of Lagos State.

Also adopting his final written address, counsel to PDP, Mr Clement Onwuenwunor, argued that Sanwo-Olu did not have a secondary school leaving certificate and, therefore, was not qualified to be governor.