Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) nominee for president in the election of February 25, 2023, filed an appeal with the Supreme Court on Tuesday in an effort to overturn President Bola Tinubu’s victory.
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal confirmed Tinubu as president on September 6, 2023, according to Anaedoonline.ng.
The petition filed by Obi and the Labour Party was dismissed by the presidential tribunal.
Peter Obi Drags INEC, Tinubu, APC To Presidential Election Tribunal (Photo)
The Allied People’s Movement (APM) and Atiku Abubakar, the PDP’s presidential candidate, submitted two more appeals, which the tribunal’s five-member panel unanimously dismissed as well.
The panel’s chair, Haruna Tsammani, declared that none of the three petitions had any validity.
When the petition he filed to contest the results of the presidential election was denied, Obi claimed in his notice of appeal that the Presidential Election Petitions Court committed a legal error and arrived at the wrong finding as a result.
He claimed that the five-member tribunal panel, chaired by Justice Haruna Tsammani, mishandled the case against him when it determined that he had failed to name the polling places where election violations had taken place.
Presidential Election Tribunal: Peter Obi Arrives In Court (Photos)
He further criticised the PEPC for rejecting his claim on the grounds that he failed to provide specifics regarding the numbers of votes or scores that were allegedly tampered with or inflated in President Tinubu’s and the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s (ruling party) favour.
When the panel cited paragraphs 4(1)(d)(2) and 54 of the First Schedule to the Electoral Act 2022 to strike out portions of his petition, Obi claimed that the panel had committed a legal error.
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