Peter Obi,
presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has filed a petition at the
presidential election tribunal challenging the victory of Bola Tinubu as
president-elect.
Tinubu, the
standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared the winner
of the presidential election held
on February 25.
Tinubu secured 8,794,726 votes, Atiku Abubakar of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had 6,984,520, and Obi polled 6,101,533.
Obi’s petition was filed early hours of Tuesday at the Abuja court of appeal which serves as the presidential election petition tribunal.
While Obi and the LP are the petitioners, the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC), Tinubu, Shettima Kashim, the vice
president-elect, and the APC are respondents.
GROUNDS AND PRAYERS OF THE PETITION
In the petition, Obi through his lawyer Livy Ozoukwu
submitted that Tinubu “at the time of the (presidential) election was not
qualified to contest the election”.
He further argued that the president-elect “was not duly
elected by majority of the lawful votes cast at the time of the election”.
Consequently, the petitioners are asking the tribunal to
determine that all the votes recorded for Tinubu in the election “are wasted
votes, owing to the non-qualification” of the president-elect and
Shettima.
“That it be determined that the 2nd respondent ( Tinubu)
having failed to score one-quarter of the votes cast at the presidential
election in the federal capital territory, Abuja was not entitled to be
declared and returned as the winner of the presidential election held on 25
February 2023,” the petitioner said.
Also, the petitioners have asked the tribunal to make “an
order cancelling the election and compelling the 1st respondent (INEC) to
conduct a fresh election at which the 2nd respondent (Tinubu), 3rd respondent
(Shettima) and 4th respondent (APC) shall not participate”.
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Is he going to fund the new elections? Nigeria cannot afford to waste billions of dollars on a fresh election
ReplyDeleteNigeria funded the last scam / apology of an election so Decency demands it funds a credible one. May be then, we can begin to reconnect with humanity because a people that has lost its sense of shock has lost the sense of being human. Our country has become a land of no consequebse. A place were crime is rewarded LOUDLY.
ReplyDeleteI am totally disappointed wt inec, let them fear God, coz I know, one day wl catch up wt them, confidence on credible election has been marred!
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