Tribunal Strikes Out Parts of Obi, Labour Party's Petition

 

 

17 paragraphs by Peter Obi and Labour Party challenging the election of Bola Tinubu as President have been struck out by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.

 

The court struck out the paragraphs for containing “vague and generic allegations”.

 

A member of the tribunal’s five-member panel, Justice Abba Mohammed, read the lead judgment.

 

Obi and LP are complainants in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023, challenging the election which brought Tinubu to power on May 29.

 

The petitioners made allegations of irregularities and said they would rely on spreadsheets, inspection reports and forensic analysis filed with the petition during the trial.

 

But in his lead judgement, Mohammed held that the petitioners failed to show which polling units the malpractices alleged occurred; the number of votes affected; and their polling unit agents who reported the alleged irregularities, and malpractices, among others.

 

Details later…