The presidential election petition tribunal has made a significant decision regarding the case presented by the Labour Party and its Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, regarding the February 25 presidential election.
In a ruling delivered by Justice Abba Mohammed, the court emphasized that the petitioners had failed to substantiate their claims concerning the election. The court pointed out that the candidate and his party had made general allegations of vote suppression in certain states, but they had not provided specific details about the polling units where these alleged malpractices occurred.
Furthermore, the court noted that the petitioners had been unable to authenticate their assertion that they had received the highest number of valid votes in the presidential election.
The court clarified that the law requires anyone alleging irregularities in a particular polling unit to provide concrete evidence of those irregularities for their petition to succeed. In this case, the petitioners did not present such evidence, failing to prove the specific polling unit where the election did not take place or where voters were subjected to oppression.
