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Lagos Central PDP Sen. Candidate, Gomez Accuses APC’s Eshilokun Of ‘Delay Tactics’ At Tribunal
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The Lagos Central senatorial election returned Eshilokun of the APC as the winner.
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The APC candidate won the election by a landslide according to results released by the electoral commission.
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Despite the big margin of victory, his opponent alleged irregularities and challenged the election outcome at the tribunal.
Eko Hot Blog reports that Prince Adewale Gomez, the Senatorial Candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos Central, has bemoaned what he described as “needless delay” by Senator-elect Wasiu Eshilokun-Sanni of the All Progressives Congress (APC), his opponent in the February 25 senatorial election.
Recall that Eshinlokun garnered 131,828 votes, while Gomez polled 69,320 votes in the election, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
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Dissatisfied with the outcome, the PDP candidate went to the Lagos State National Assembly election petitions tribunal to challenge the result, alleging that it was marred by irregularities.
The tribunal sitting in Lagos is weeks into pre-hearing.
In a statement on Friday, Gomez said briefings from his legal team on the proceedings have indicated that the respondents, APC and its candidate in the Senatorial election, “appeared to have developed cold feet in the face of overwhelming evidences of non compliance and manipulation allegedly perpetrated during the last election.”
He went further to say that the ruling party and his opponent, through their legal teams, have been foot-dragging and employing delay tactics “knowing fully well that the tribunal has limited time to entertain the petitions.”
Gomez also told of various spurious motions coming up from the APC’s side just to seek adjustments.
Lagos Central Senator-elect, Wasiu Eshinlokun-Sanni
The PDP candidate stated that all Eshilokun-Sanni and the ruling party planned is to continue delaying the hearing till after May 29th “when the INEC declared president elect would have been sworn in and believing that such development would facilitate the arm-twisting of the judiciary using the power of incumbency.”
Gomez however, expressed very strong belief in God and the Judiciary to retrieve his “stolen mandate.”
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The petitioner added that the judiciary has over time proven to be a truly independent arm of the government and that the antecedents of the judiciary has been quite commendable of recent, citing the Adeleke vs Oyetola case as a landmark judgement by the judiciary.
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