The All Progressive Congress (APC) has asked the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja to dismiss the petition brought against Bola Ahmed
Tinubu by the Labour Party LP and its presidential candidate, Mr Peter Gregory Obi for being incompetent and lacking in locus standi.
Dissatisfied with the outcome of the Presidential election, Obi and Labour Party had approached the tribunal, insisting that the APC with its standard bearer, Bola Ahmed Tibubu was unlawfully declared winner of the election and prayed it to nullify the said declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission .
Other grounds are that the 1st Petitioner was screened as a presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in April 2022; “1st Petitioner participated and was cleared to contest the presidential election while being a member of the Peoples Democratic Party ; “Whereas, by the mandatory provisions of Section 77 and of the Electoral Act 2022, a political party shall maintain a register and shall make such register available to the Independent National Electoral Commission not later than 30 days before the date fixed for the party primaries, congresses and convention.
“By section 77 of the Electoral Act, 2022, the 2nd Petitioner is mandated to have submitted its comprehensive register of members to the 1st Respondent 30 days before its presidential primary. That is to say, the said register of members must have been submitted to the 1st Respondent on or before 30th April 2022.
APC also argued that Obi and LP’s petition was improperly constituted because it failed to join Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party who are necessary parties as the reliefs sought shall affect them one way or the other.
In further answer to paragraph 14 of the petition, the Respondent avers that the 3rd Respondent was validly sponsored and nominated by the 2nd and Respondents and qualified to be nominated by the 2nd Respondent as a vice presidential candidate and validly contested on a joint ticket with the 2nd Respondent and was validly returned as the vice president, having won a majority of the lawful votes cast at the said election.
The Respondent states in reaction to paragraph 21 of the petition that the nomination of the 3rd Respondent by the 2nd Respondent as the vice-presidential candidate was done lawfully and in compliance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and the Electoral Act, 2022.
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