Obi, LP Petition Dropped By Tribunal Due To Inconsistencies

The petition brought by Peter Obi and the Labour Party to challenge the election of President Bola Tinubu has been withdrawn from the Presidential Election Petition Court.

This most recent development is due to an inappropriate sequence of documents submitted to the court as evidence of the alleged irregularities during the February 25 presidential election.

The court noticed certain discrepancies in the documents from the 23 Local Government Areas of Benue State during its hearings on Thursday.

While efforts to reach a compromise fell short, Chief Emeka Okpoko, SAN, the attorney for Obi and the Labour Party, was dismissed for using documents that had not been filed to conduct the proceedings on the grounds that they were unlawful.

After that, the court ceased hearing the petition and instructed the legal team to go file the schedule of papers again in accordance with the pre-hearing report’s guidelines.

The Party’s leaders were there in the courtroom to observe the proceedings, together with Peter Obi and Datti Baba Ahmed, the LP’s vice presidential candidate.

While Obi’s legal team compared their records, the five Justices considering the petition under the leadership of Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani had likewise retreated to their chambers.