Your Claim Of 18,088 Blurred Result Sheet Is Unfounded – Tribunal Tells LP, Peter Obi

The Labour Party (LP) and Peter Obi, its presidential candidate in the Nigerian presidential election of 2023, filed a petition with the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) regarding blurred result sheets. The PEPT dismissed the petition.

In one of his findings on Wednesday in the Labour Party’s lawsuit contesting President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the elections of February 25, Justice Abba Mohammed stated that the party’s arguments were unsubstantiated.

Justice Mohammed determined that the Labour Party’s assertion that 18,088 of the results sheets were blurred was false because every polling place should have a Labour Party representative who will have a copy of the results sheet.

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The testimony provided by 10 out of the 13 witnesses that the Labour Party (LP) and its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, invited for testimony was, however, dismissed by the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC).

The tribunal determined that the witnesses’ sworn testimonies were incompetent and not admissible, according to Justice Haruna Tsammani, who delivered the decision on Wednesday.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Bola Tinubu were previously found to lack locus standi to contest Obi’s membership in the LP, according to the tribunal.

In their petitions, the APC and Bola Tinubu claimed that Obi’s name was missing from the list of LP members provided to INEC on April 25, 2022, in violation of Section 77 of the Electoral Act of 2022.

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However, Justice Abba Bello Mohammed (before turning the decision over to Justice Haruna Tsammani) found that the subject was purely an internal matter of the political party in the lead judgement on the APC’s objections to Obi and the LP’s petitions.

 

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