Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) candidate for president in 2023, has revealed what he and the party are doing to file a lawsuit to retrieve their allegedly stolen mandate.
Recall the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) confirmed the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as the February 25th presidential election winner.
Labour Party and its candidate, other political parties and their candidates have since dragged the electoral commission and APC to court over the said outcome of the polls.
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Obi, however, has expressed optimism that he will still get justice in court even after Tinubu is sworn in on May 29.
The Presidential Election Tribunal’s preliminary hearings came to a close on Tuesday, and the formal trial is set to start on May 30. Instead of the seven weeks they requested, which would have started on May 30 and ended on June 23, petitioners now have three weeks to make their case.
On May 24, Obi expressed faith in the tribunal through his spokeswoman, Diran Onifade, stressing that his attorneys are pursuing the case in court and would eventually bring him justice.
The previous governor of Anambra State listed numerous instances in which officials were removed from office after taking office.
While they are unable to take any further action, according to Obi, they will continue to gather scraps of evidence to show they won the election on February 25.
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The former governor of Anambra State refuted claims made by the Apapa Lamidi-led side that his prospects of winning at the tribunal were in jeopardy because he had not paid the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) the N1.5 million required to collect the essential documents that would have served as evidence in court.
“They are suspended. They are out of the system so they don’t know what is going on in the system. All this crap they are talking about does not make sense. They don’t have the right information as to what is going on in the party. We do not owe INEC anything. The court has asked INEC to give us documents. Our lawyers have complied. We have applied. Whatever is meant to be paid has been paid but they don’t know because they are suspended. They are not part of the party at this point. In which party event have you seen them? They are only hopping from TV studio to TV studio. And claiming who they are not. Our party people that have now been elected, are they in touch with them? They are using sabotage to even deny these people of the mandate that elected them. This is what they are busy doing. They are outsiders.
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“It is INEC that is owing us documents that the court said they should give us. We do not owe them any money,” Onifade said on behalf of the Labour Party candidate.
On what the party is doing actually to ensure victory in court, he noted: “You cannot do anything extra than just take your case to court; state your case, bring your evidence, bring your witnesses and do the right thing, which is what we have been doing.”
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