Robert Clarke, a senior advocate of Nigeria, says the petition of the Labour Party (LP) on the ground that Bola Tinubu, president-elect, is not eligible to contest for the presidency
Tinubu, the standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress , was declared the winner of the presidential election.
$460,000 for an offence involving dishonesty, namely narcotics trafficking imposed by the United States District Court” in 1993. “Two, that even if he is eligible to be voted for, he did not get the two-thirds of votes cast in Abuja and that the election was marred with gangsterism and other things. Those are the three elements that the Labour Party has brought forward to the election petition.
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