Ambode Floors Agbaje again as Supreme Court Upholds His Election

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the election of Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, of the APC.

In a unanimous judgment, a seven-man panel of the apex court led by Justice Tanko Muhammad struck out the appeal by the PDP candidate in the April 11, 2015 poll, Mr. Olujimi Agbaje , for not being competent.

In the lead judgment read by Justice Clara Ogunbiyi,  the Supreme Court struck out Agbaje’s appeal by upholding Ambode’s preliminary objection on the ground  that appeal was incompetent and academic.

The apex court upheld the argument by Ambode’s lawyer, Olabode Olanipenikun, that the appeal had been rendered incompetent and academic by the virtue of the fact that the PDP refused to join Agbaje to appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal, which had earlier upheld the judgment of the Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal to uphold Ambode's election.