Peter Obi and Labour Party Officially Challenges Presidential Election in Court
Peter Obi and labour party officially challenges presidential election in an Abuja court.
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi and his party have filed a petition at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, challenging the declaration of the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the Febru- ary 25 presidential election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which conducted the presidential election de- clared Tinubu winner, having polled a total of 8,794,726 to defeat his closest rivals and candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr Obi, who scored 6,984, 520 and 6,101,533 respectively.
INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, declared Tinubu president-elect on March 1 in Abuja.
Obi and Atiku had called for the cancellation of the results of the election, al- leging malpractices following the electoral umpire’s failure to electronically upload results immediately from its polling units to the INEC Results Viewing Portal.
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