According to reports, the Labour Party (LP) lawmaker Thaddeus Attah’s election as the representative of the Eti Osa Federal Constituency of Lagos State on February 25, 2023, was invalidated by the Lagos State National and State House of Assembly Election Petition tribunal, which is based in Ikeja, Lagos State.
According to reports, the court mandated that INEC hold a second election in Eti-Osa’s 32 polling places within 90 days, revoke the return certificate given to Attah, and hold polls in any regions where the election was not held on February 25.
Reacting to the news via his IG page, the APC candidate in the election, Ibrahim Obanikoro, wrote on his Instagram story
“The Feb 25 election has just been rightly declared inconclusive and supplementary elections have been ordered by the court. INEC has been ordered to withdraw the return certificate and conduct elections in areas where it didn’t hold on Election Day.”
Also singer and PDP candidate in the same election, Olubankole Wellington aka Banky W, also left a post on his X page suggesting that it is still possible for him to be elected into that office.
“It is possible. Still.” he wrote
Meanwhile Thaddeus Atta is yet to react to this development.
At the February 25 election, Atta won with 24,075 votes, while the Peoples Democratic Party’s Banky W came second with 18,666 votes.
Babajide Obanikoro of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared third with 16,901 votes.
