PEPTJudgement: Tribunal laments failure of Obi, LP to prove election malpractice allegations

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal, Abuja on Wednesday noted the inability of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi and the party to provide evidence of several allegation in their petition.

The tribunal noted this while delivering its ruling on the petition of the LP and Obi challenging the elections and declaration of President Bola Tinubu as winner of the February 25 poll.

While reading the judgement, the tribunal judge stated among others, that LP “failed to specify particulars of polling units where the complainants of irregularities are alleged.

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“The petitioners said INEC reduced their scores and added it to APC votes but they couldn’t supply us with their actual votes before the said reductions, neither did they state the units where it happened….”

It also continued that “petitioner filed a petition on election malpractices in most polling units but couldn’t prove any malpractices to any polling unit. The petition is vague. Petitioner failed to specify particulars of polling units where election irregularities took place.

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