"Sanwo-Olu And Wife Voted With Invalid Cards", Witness Testifies Before Tribunal

 

A witness, Dayo Israel who was an agent for the Labour Party for Unit 006, Ward 15, Lagos Island Local Government while appearing before the Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal said that the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and his wife cast their votes with voter cards that were invalid during the March 18 governorship election.

Israel's testimony was contained in the petition filed by Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the Labour Party’s candidate, seeking to nullify Governor Sanwo-Olu’s return.

Dayo said “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,” 

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He also claimed that he was pummeled by thugs whose allegiance was to the All Progressives Congress on election day.

He said it was easy to identify them as APC supporters based on the statements they made and stated that they threatened to violently attack anyone who did not cast his or her vote for the APC.

“I am not a member of the Labour Party, but I was assigned as an agent. When the APC thugs recognised me as an LP agent, they beat me up. They also said if voters did not vote for APC, they would beat them too.” he said

Israel went further to describe how he managed to escape the attack of four individuals by quietly sneaking out of the environment of the voting exercise to get change of clothes before returning to monitor votes that were being counted.

According to him, there were numerous cases of multiple voting at the polling unit in the presence of INEC officials who did nothing to assuage the situation.

The case was adjourned until the 3rd of July