TOP STORY: Peter Obi, LP to challenge election results in only 18 states | TheCable
Peter Obi,
presidential candidate of the Labour Party , says he and the party will challenge the results of the February 25 election in only 18 states. Emeka Okpoko, counsel to Obi and LP, spoke while tendering documents at the resumed hearing of the joint petition filed by the party before the presidential election petition court on Thursday.
The senior advocate of Nigeria said the petitioners did not intend to waste efforts in the states where they “decisively and uncontestedly won”. However, at the end of Thursday’s proceedings, the petitioners tendered certified electoral documents obtained from the Independent National Electoral Commission in only six states.
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