2023 Election: 'INEC Favours Bola Tinubu', Peter Obi Gives Strong Evidence in Court

• Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has alleged that INEC is taking sides on his petition against Bola Tinubu, the president-elect
• This is due to the fact that Obi and his party are in court to say Tinubu did not have the majority vote during the election and that his vice was a senatorial candidate when he was picked
• But INEC had prayed the court that Obi and Labour Party's petition could not be granted, a move the petitioners considered favourable for Tinubu and the APC in a counter

FCT, Abuja - Peter Obi and the Labour Party have pointed accusing fingers at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), alleging that the electoral umpire favoured Bola Tinubu, the president-elect.

Obi and his party were considered the third force in the 2023 election and are challenging the declaration of Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the election, The Cable reported.

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The duo, in a petition with a marked number CA/PEPC/03/2023, the lead counsel to Obi and the Labour Party, Livy Ozoukwu, argued that Tinubu was not elected with a majority of the lawful votes cast during the February 25 presidential election.

In other allegations, the third force also claimed that Kashim Shettima, the vice president to Tinubu, had a double nomination, which was against the electoral act.

But the electoral commission, through its lawyer, Abubakar Mahmoud, argued that the prayer of Peter Obi and his party could not be granted.

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INEC then urged the court to either strike out the petition or dismiss it over gross incompetent, vague, generic, non-specific, equivocal, academic, abusive, nebulous, general, ambiguous, and hypothetical.

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But Obi and the Labour Party, in a response filed on April 21, faulted the position of the commission for filing a preliminary objection.

The petition reads in part:

“The 1st respondent, forgetting its role as an electoral umpire, gave a notice of preliminary objection to challenge the alleged incompetence of the petition.”

LP: "Our suspended members plotting to stop Obi’s petition against Tinubu"

Legit.ng earlier reported that the Labour Party has alleged that its factional members, led by Lamidi Apapa, are plotting to scuttle the chances of Peter Obi at the tribunals in favour of Bola Tinubu and the APC.

Pastor Obiora Ifoh, the Labour Party's acting publicity secretary, alleged that the suspended former deputy national chairman was the mastermind behind the 'evil act'.

Ifoh claimed that the plots to frustrate the victory of Obi and the Labour Party at the tribunals were revealed by the legal team of the party.

Source: Legit.ng