“He has already secured a campaign office along Airport Road. Some of the campaign vehicles have started arriving…” said an aide.

The petition against the governor was dismissed as a pre-election issue.

The professor advised the president to employ a committee to integrate reports to aid electoral reform.

The Court held that the PDP candidate wasn’t validly sponsored to run for governor.

“You all combined are not 10 per cent of what I am made up of. Shame on you all.”

“We are optimistic that the Supreme Court will by the grace of Allah SWT, set aside these miscarriages of justice by the Tribunal and the Appeal Court.”

His comments are unfortunate, replied APC candidate Sylva.

Declare Ajaka winner, SDP tells INEC.

He urged him to unite the country, while commending President George Weah for conceding defeat.

His comments stood out in West and Central Africa where there have been eight military coups in three years, eroding faith in democratic elections.

“PDP’s hallucinations about one-party state is understandable only in the context of its unrealised plan to rule Nigeria for 60 years.“

He said the party leadership had set up a reconciliation committee to reunite the warring factions.

Having declared as illegal and void the results from the IReV, the court subsequently set aside the declaration of Lawal as governor.

But it was silent on if it would also amend the law to mandate INEC to transmit or upload results from the polling units on IReV.

The governor urged his opponents to “embrace the olive branch and join in the sure march to the Greater Lagos that keeps rising by the day.”

“We urge Atiku to concentrate on repairing his damaged political psyche and attempt to revive his comatose PDP.”

However, according to NIIA researcher Kester Onor, Boakai’s alliances may not be enough to secure a him a win in the elections.

He called for a merger of opposition parties, saying INEC conducted the worst election in Nigeria’s history.

“What we had was vote allocation by INEC. INEC is a great disappointment and a fraud.”

The president narrowly won the first round but failed to get more than 50% of the vote, triggering the run-off.