Banky W Reacts As Tribunal Sacks Lagos Labour Party Lawmaker, Attah

Nigerian singer, Bankole Wellington popularly known as Banky W has reacted to the sacking of Labour Party lawmaker, Thaddeus Attah.

Starnews Nigeria reports that the National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Lagos State sacked Thaddeus Attah of the Labour Party as the winner of the House of Representatives election for Eti-Osa Constituency.

Giving the judgment on Monday, the tribunal also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct a supplementary election in 32 polling units within 90 days, as it agreed with Banky W and Obanikoro that elections did not hold in about 40 polling units.

INEC had declared that Mr Attah winner of the election with 24,075 votes, defeating Bankole Wellington, aka Banky W, of the Peoples Democratic Party who polled 18,666 votes and Babajide Obanikoro of the All Progressives Congress who scored 16,901 votes.

Banky W saw the tribunal ruling as a potential turnaround in his political career to be a federal lawmaker.

In a brief post on his X handle on Monday, he tweeted, “It is possible. Still.”

According to Peoples Gazette, the spokesperson for the Labour Party in Lagos, Olubunmi Adesanya, confirmed the decision.

She said, “So what happened was that two of the three judges ruled in favour of supplementary election taking place in some areas, while the third judge said the case should be dismissed.

“We’ll know what the party will do by tomorrow. We’ll await what our legal advisers tell us before we do anything.”

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