The electoral body, Bola Tinubu, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) had submitted objections, asking the Tribunal to dismiss Peter Obi’s petition for abuse of court process.
Now, Peter Obi has a response to their claims.
The Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, is challenging the victory of Bola Tinubu of the APC at the 2023 election.
Mr. Tinubu was declared the winner of the 2023 presidential election in the early hours of March 1.
However, Obi’s legal team alleges that the election of Tinubu was invalid by reason of corrupt practices or non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022.
Furthermore, Mr. Obi’s lawyers accuse the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of non-compliance with relevant laws.
Also, the legal team alleges that INEC altered election results in about 18,000 polling units against their client.
This was done while refusing to use the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine mandatory to accredit voters and immediately upload of results in real-time in line with the Electoral Act.
However, INEC, Tinubu, and the APC entered objections asking the Tribunal to dismiss Obi’s petition for abuse of court process.
Obi’s Response
Mr. Obi has responded to all the preliminary objections filed against his petition.
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In the reply dated April 20, Obi’s legal team led by Dr Livy Ozoukwu (SAN) maintained that his petitions are well grounded to lawfully overturn the 2023 presidential election results announced by INEC.
Also, in a bid to maximize time, Obi’s team writes to the Secretary of the Presidential Election Court, asking for the “issuance of pre-hearing notice” in respect of his petition.
As seen in the letter, the court issued the pre-hearing form to him and the respective parties.
During the pre-hearing session, Obi wants to argue that: “Applications for subpoena, objections, enforcement of order of court not obeyed by INEC and other applications arising in the course of the hearing”.
Also, The Whistler reports that the leadership of the Court of Appeal may set the date for sitting before the end of April as pre-hearing and full hearing sitting may commence next month.
