The party asked the tribunal to dismiss the petition with substantial cost on the grounds that it lacked merit and was frivolous.
The All Progressives Congress , on Monday, prayed the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja to dismiss the petition filed by the Labour Party and its Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi, against the emergence of Sen. Bola Tinubu as president-elect in the Feb. 25 election. The APC, the 4th respondent, urged the PEPC…
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Obi, the 1st petitioner, and LP, the 2nd petitioner, had sued the Independent National Electoral Commission , Tinubu, Sen. Kashim Shettima and APC as 1st to 4th respondents respectively. Obi and LP said INEC violated its own regulations when it announced the result despite the fact that at the time of the announcement, the totality of the polling unit results had yet to be fully scanned, uploaded and transmitted electronically as required by the Electoral Act.
“That it be determined that the 2nd respondent , having failed to score one-quarter of the votes cast at the presidential election in the FCT was not entitled to be declared and returned as the winner of the presidential election held on Feb. 25.”” “2nd petitioner conducted its presidential primary on May 30, 2022 which purportedly produced 1st petitioner as its candidate, which time contravened Section 77 of the Electoral Act for him to contest the primary election as a member of the 2nd petitioner.
“By Paragraph 17 of the petition, the petitioners, on their own, stated that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar came second in the presidential election with 6,984,520 votes as against the petitioners who came third with 6,101,533 votes;
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