Obi, other candidates present as election petition tribunal begins hearing
Story from Ibraheem Hamza MUHAMMAD
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 presidential election, Peter Obi, among other political candidates in the 2023 election are attending the Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja.
Our correspondent reports that Barrister Simon Bako Lalong, Governor of Plateau and DG of the defunct APC-PCC arrived at the court in the early hours of Monday, May 8.
The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal began pre-hearing the petitions challenging the outcome of the February 25 presidential election.
The presiding judge, Justice Haruna Simon Tsamani, has appealed to lawyers to present concrete evidence and avoid technicalities for speedy dispensation of justice.
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Neptune Prime reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress as the winner of the presidential election having polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat his closest rivals, Atiku Abubakar of PDP and Mr Obi of LP.
But Atiku, Obi, and some other parties rejected the results announced by INEC and approached the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to annul Tinubu’s victory.