On Monday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) asked the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja to reject the petition the Labour Party (LP) and Mr. Peter Obi, its presidential candidate, filed to challenge Sen. Bola Tinubu’s election as the winner of the February 25 election.
The APC, the fourth respondent, urged the PEPC to deny the petition in its notice of preliminary objection, CA/PEPC/03/2023, which was sent on Monday night to the PEPC Secretariat by Thomas Ojo, a member of the party’s legal team in Abuja under the direction of Lateef Fagbemi, SAN.
The petition was deemed frivolous and without merit, so the party requested that the tribunal reject it with significant costs.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Tinubu, Sen. Kashim Shettima, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) are the first through fourth respondents that Obi, the first petitioner, and LP, the second petitioner, have sued.
The petitioners are requesting that Tinubu and Shettima’s victories in the presidential election on February 25 be declared invalid.
Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president and member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), finished second in the election with 6,984,520 votes, and Obi finished third with 6,101,533.
The election results are also being contested by Abubakar and the PDP.
Livy Ozoukwu, the principal attorney for Obi and LP, submitted a petition with the filing number CA/PEPC/03/2023 in which they argued that Tinubu “was not duly elected by a majority of the lawful votes cast at the time of the election.”
The petitioners asserted that there had been rigging in 11 states, and they promised to prove it in the declaration of results based on the results that had been uploaded.
Despite the fact that at the time of the announcement, all of the polling unit results had not yet been fully scanned, uploaded, and transferred electronically as required by the Electoral Act, Obi and LP claimed INEC broke its own rules when it published the outcome.
On Monday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) asked the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja to reject the petition the Labour Party (LP) and Mr. Peter Obi, its presidential candidate, filed to challenge Sen. Bola Tinubu’s election as the winner of the February 25 election.
The APC, the fourth respondent, urged the PEPC to deny the petition in its notice of preliminary objection, CA/PEPC/03/2023, which was sent on Monday night to the PEPC Secretariat by Thomas Ojo, a member of the party’s legal team in Abuja under the direction of Lateef Fagbemi, SAN.
The petition was deemed frivolous and without merit, so the party requested that the tribunal reject it with significant costs.