Lagos guber: Why I won’t go to tribunal- ADP candidate


The Action Democratic Party (ADP) governorship candidate in Lagos state, Mr Babatunde Gbadamosi, has said he would not contest the outcome of the governorship election in the state.

Instead, the candidate said he would prefer to mobilise resources including grassroots fellowship and needed materials to prepare better for the 2023 governorship election.

The candidate, who stated this Tuesday in Lagos, expressed confident that he would do better than he did in the just concluded exercise even as he said he was okay with the electoral system.

“My decision is to wait and contest the next election and hopefully, the votes will count then.

“I agree that the election in the state was an absolute fraud and a sham with many instances of open multiple voting recorded in places like Ikorodu, Lagos Island.

“However, I do not have any more resources to waste on a process in which I have no confidence. We keep learning and I believe that the will of the people will surely prevail in future elections in the state,” he said.

Gbadamosi also claimed the last exercise was marred by electoral fraud and manipulation of results, noting that certain persons with the backing of powerful individuals went from one polling unit to another to commit electoral fraud.

He alleged these persons who went about with firearms openly threatened legitimate voters away their polling units thereby ensuring that they were disenfranchised.

He, accordingly advised the electoral umpire to put its house in order to forestall most of the anomalies witnessed in the 2019 general elections in the future elections.

He stressed the need to prosecute all those involved in electoral malpractices in 2019 general elections to serve as deterrent to others.

Speaking on the current leadership tussle in the incoming 9th National Assembly, he called on the lawmakers to adopt stiffer measures against electoral offenders saying this would deter them from perpetrating same in 2023.

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