President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima have presented evidence to support their claim that Peter Obi is not a registered member of the Labour Party (LP).
Tinubu and Shettima on Wednesday submitted a copy of the Labour Party membership register for Anambra State as evidence to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal .
During the defence proceedings at the Tribunal sitting at a court in Abuja, their legal representative, Chief Wole Olanipekun , presented the membership register along with a letter from the Labour Party, dated April 25, 2022, which was addressed to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission , as supporting documents.
The counsel for Tinubu and Shettima argued that according to Section 77 of the Electoral Act, they were obligated to submit their comprehensive register of members to INEC 30 days before their presidential primary.They claim that as of April 30, 2022, Obi was still a member of the PDP, and his name was not included in the register of members submitted by the LP to INEC.
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