2023: Peter Obi Not Eligible To Stand Presidential Election – Obono-Obla

Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, a former presidential aide and spokesman for the All Progressives Congress, APC, campaign council in Cross River State, has asserted that Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), is ineligible to run for office next month.

In a Calabar interview, Obono-Obla said that Peter Obi was not a member of any political party at the time he ran for and received the LP ticket.

However, Ogar Osim, the chairman and governorship candidate of the LP in Cross River State, claimed that waivers exist within his party.

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There is a waiver provision in the Labour Party, Osim just replied in an SMS.

However, the APC campaign council spokesman quoted section 77 of the Electoral Act 2022, saying “each party is required to maintain a membership register in hard and soft copy and to make such register available to the Independent National Electoral Commission not later than 30 days before the date fixed for primaries, congresses, and conventions. ”

According to Obono-Obla, “On April 30, 2022, INEC demanded all political parties to submit registers of its members. The Labour Party held its presidential primaries on 31 May 2022. Peter Obi joined the Labour Party on 27 May 2022. It follows that as of 31 May 2022 when Peter Obi purportedly won the ticket of the Labour Party, his name was not on the register of the Labour Party which had been submitted to INEC in compliance with the requirement of Section 77 of the Electoral Act, 2022.”

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A lawyer named Obono-Obla indicated that Peter Obi did not meet the constitutional criteria of belonging to a political party, which he claimed was one of the requirements for becoming president.

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