.PeterObi to tribunal: Though not convicted, officialABAT ineligible to be president over $460k forfeiture | TheCable
Author:Peter Obi, standard bearer of the Labour Party , has asked the presidential election petition tribunal to void the election of President Bola Tinubu.
In their final written address dated July 20, the petitioners insisted that Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima were unqualified to contest the poll.the forfeiture proceeding allegedly involving Tinubu in a US district court is sufficient to have him disqualified by the Independent National Electoral Commission .Tinubu had said the $460,000 forfeiture was in a civil — not criminal — suit and since he was not convicted, he was eligible to contest the poll.
“That is why the word “or” is used twice in section 137 of the Constitution, meaning it carries a disjunctive meaning — to separate persons convicted from persons who, even though not sentenced, are affected by an order of a fine imposed by a Court – like the 2nd respondent in this petition.”They said Shettima was nominated as Tinubu’s vice-presidential candidate on July 14, 2022, while he was still the senatorial candidate for Borno central.
“The pertinent question is, how can an election result that lacks transparency, violates specific rules and regulations, palpably compromised, not susceptible to verification by the admitted technological platform introduced as an innovation for a transparent process, and contravenes clear constitutional provisions, be rightly described as accurate and or authentic,” the petitioners asked.
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