PETER OBI OFFICIALLY FILES PETITION TO TRIBUNAL FOUR WEEKS AFTER POLL

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, formally filed a petition to the elections tribunal to protest the outcome of the February 25 presidential elections.

This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Chief Spokesperson of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Dr. Yunusa Tanko.

The statement noted that the petition was filed in Abuja and the process of reclaiming the people’s mandate has started.

Obi’s petition is coming four weeks after the contentious presidential and National Assembly elections that produced the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Although Tanko did not reveal why it took his principal this long to file the petition, a source within the party disclosed that the former governor of Anambra State wanted to properly collate materials to back up his claim of massive rigging, voters intimidation, and corruption allegation against the electoral umpire.

You will recall that Tanko said last Tuesday that the lawyers of the LP presidential candidate were making progress with their inspection of electoral data after they were granted access to gather some relevant information from the materials supplied.

He made the statement after the legal team met with the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who promised that the commission would give the legal team access to the materials.