Tribunal Reschedules Hearing of Peter Obi’s Application Against Tinubu

The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal at the Court of Appeal in Abuja is scheduled to continue on May 10, 2023, with the petition filed by the Labor Party and its presidential candidate Peter Obi challenging the presidential election.

The tribunal also postponed the consideration of the petition of the People’s Action Party (APP) on contesting the presidential election until Wednesday, May 10, 2023.

The petition filed by Obi and APP names Bola Tinubu, the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as respondents.

The extension of the APP allows the parties to raise issues for the court to decide. The APP and its presidential candidate, Simon Nnadi, had petitioned the court to disqualify the president-elect, arguing that he is ineligible to run.

Obi and LP want the court to rule that the second respondent (Tinubu) failed to secure a quarter of the votes in the presidential election in the Federal Capital, Abuja and that Tinubu is not entitled to be declared and returned as the winner of the 2023 presidential election that took place on the 25th of February.

The nomination of Kashim Shettima as the vice presidential candidate is flawed because he did not withdraw his party’s nomination for the position of senator before accepting Tinubu’s nomination for the vice presidency.

The president-elect is not officially elected by a majority of the legal votes casted in the election.

They had also claimed he is involved in drug trafficking in US courts.