The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT) has struck out the petition of the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the Labour Party and Peter Obi challenged the 2023 presidential election won by Bola Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The tribunal ruled that the petition of the Labour Party and its presidential candidate was greatly incompetent and defective beyond repairs.
In delivering the judgement read by Justice Haruna Tsammani, the tribunal struck out the testimonies of 10 out the 13 witnesses called by Mr Obi and the Labour Party.
The tribunal held that the arguments of the petitioners “that the votes of the voters in the FCT have more weight than others in other parts of the country to the extent that their votes purportedly have a greater effect on other votes” is futile and hollow.
With the FCT controversy settled, the petition of Peter Obi and the Labour Party is out of the way; Atiku Abubakar’s petition is now under consideration.
Details later…
