Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, has formally filed a petition with the elections tribunal to contest the results of the February 25 election.
This was revealed in a statement published by Dr Yunusa Tanko, Chief Spokesman of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Committee.
“It is official that the Labor Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has filed his plea to the presidential elections tribunal in Abuja,” the statement said. The process of recovering the mandate of the people has begun.”
Obi’s petition comes four weeks after the acrimonious presidential and National Assembly elections that resulted in the election of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as President-elect.
Although Tanko did not reveal why it took his principal this long to file the petition, a source within the party disclosed that the former governor of Anambra State wanted to properly collate materials to back up his claim of massive rigging, voters intimidation and corruption allegation against the electoral umpire.
“You know Obi doesn’t like talking without getting facts. That’s why he took his time before he officially filed his case at the tribunal,” he said.
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Recall that Tanko told ANAEDOONLINE.NG, last Tuesday that the lawyers of the LP presidential candidate were making progress with their inspection of electoral data after they were granted access to gather some relevant information from the materials supplied.
He made the statement after the legal team met with the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who promised that the commission would give the legal team access to the materials.
At the parley, the head of the legal delegation, Dr Livy Uzoukwu, who led 60 lawyers to the meeting had urged the commission to urgently make the polls materials available as the team was running against the deadline to file its petition against the outcome of the presidential poll.
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