Tribunal dismisses Obi’s petition against Tinubu, says it lacks merit

In the ongoing judgment, the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal on Wednesday said that the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi’s entire petition against President Bola Tinubu was based on rhetoric while dismissing all petitions before it.

The Informant247 gathered that part of the claims made by the petitioners include the nullification of the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election for failing to score 25 per cent in the FCT; Tinubu’s incompetence to contest the election following his forfeiture case in the United States, the failure of INEC to transmit results to Irev, among others.

However, Justice Haruna Tsammani-led’s five-person panel, while reading his ruling, struck out the issues on the petitions and described the 25 per cent requirement in FCT as fallacious and incredibly ridiculous.

He said, “The argument of LP lawyer that the 2nd respondent ought not to have been declared winner because he did not score 25 per cent in the FCT is fallacious and incredibly ridiculous.”