The Labour Party candidate for the 2024 presidential election, Peter Obi has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court against the judgment of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.
Daily Report Nigeria reports that Obi and the LP are challenging the dismissal of their petitions against the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as winner of the February 25 poll.
The Tribunal had in its ruling on September 6 dismissed the petitions for lacking merit.
Obi and LP’s legal team led by Livy Uzokwu (SAN) on Tuesday approached the apex court on 51 grounds which they “termed an error in law to prove that President Bola Tinubu who was the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) did not win the election and that it was wrong for both INEC and the PEPC to declare him winner of the election when many incontrovertible points were proving otherwise.”
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This was disclosed by the National Publicity Secretary of the Julius Abure led faction of the Labour Party, Obiora Ifoh.
The statement reads: “In their reliefs Obi and the Labour Party sought from the apex Court, four key points; Allow the Appeal, set aside the perverse Judgment of the PEPC, and grant the Reliefs sought in the petition, either in the main or in the alternative.
“On the issue of the 25% requirement for Abuja, Obi and the Labour Party listed the particulars of error by the PEPC as follows.
“That the PEPC failed to appreciate that for the President to assume the office or position of the Governor of Abuja, is also under a mandate to secure 25% of the votes cast in the FCT.
“They also accused the PEPC of overlooking the fuller purport of section 299 which will be more glaring on a calm examination of section 301 of the constitution.
“No date yet has been fixed for the hearing of the case.”
