sitting at the Court of Appeal headquarters in Abuja, to dismiss the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi,
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party came second in the election with 6,984,520 votes, while Mr Obi came third with 6,101,533 votes.
But in its response to the petition, the APC asked the court to dismiss the suit on the ground that Mr Obi, the 1st petitioner, lacked requisite “locus standi” to institute the petition because he was not a member of LP at least 30 days to the party’s presidential primary to be validly sponsored by the party.“1st petitioner was screened as a presidential aspirant of the PDP in Apni 2022.“
It stated further that all the PDP’s presidential candidates were screened on 29 April 29, an exercise Mr Obi participated in and cleared to contest while being a member of the party. “At Paragraph 102 of the petition, the petitioners urged the tribunal to determine that 1st petitioner scored the majority of lawful votes without joining Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the petition.
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