During a court session held on Thursday, the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, presented presidential election results from eight states, challenging the victory of President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The court admitted these results as part of the evidence for their ongoing lawsuit.
The lead lawyer representing Obi disclosed that they had additional proof that they wish to introduce to the court. The counsel went on to submit certified true copies of INEC election results from six local government areas (LGAs) in Rivers and Kogi states.
Furthermore, the Labour Party tendered results from Niger, Adamawa, Oyo, Bayelsa, Edo, and Lagos states. The party specifically drew attention to 20 LGAs in Lagos, arguing that the vote counts they received were inaccurately low. These Lagos LGAs include Apapa, Lagos Island, Lagos mainland, Ikorodu, Amuwo Odofin, Ibeju Lekki, Ikeja, Ifako- Ijaye, Kosofe, and Oshodi-Isolo.
Despite opposition from the first, second, and third respondents to the admissibility of this evidence, the court agreed to include the documents as evidence, pending the respondents’ counter-arguments.
In addition to the results from Rivers and Kogi states, Obi provided more certified true copies of Election results from Bida LGA of Niger state, and 21 LGAs in Adamawa state.
The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, joined Obi in court around 9:20 am for the continuation of the hearing at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.
At the previous proceeding on Thursday, the Labour Party candidate tendered results from 115 LGAs in an effort to support his case. However, the respondents opposed this evidence. The Labour Party and Obi are questioning President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the election held on February 25.
Tinubu, aged 71, was announced the winner with 8,794,726 votes, while his closest competitor, 76-year-old former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, secured 6,984,520 votes. Obi came third with a total of 6,101,533 votes.
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