Peter Obi petition against Tinubu

The People's Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the February 25 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar have filed their petition challenging the ...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, is now the fifth petitioner to file a petition against the president-elect,

The world is watching,’ Bwala tweeted. “The petition is in. Let the legal fireworks begin.

The electoral commission, INEC, declared Mr Tinubu the winner of the election having scored majority votes and at least 25 per cent of votes in 29 states.

[his petition](https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/589365-just-in-peter-obi-files-petition-against-tinubus-victory-seeks-five-prayers.html) at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja, Mr Obi sought five prayers from the court. Good journalism costs a lot of money. [electoral commission](http://inecnigeria.org), INEC, declared Mr Tinubu the winner of the election having scored majority votes (8,794,726 votes) and at least 25 per cent of votes in 29 states.

Festus Keyamo explains how petition by LP's Peter Obi of against outcome of presidential election will affect President-elect, Bola Tinubu.

He wrote, “I am excited about the issues raised in those Election Petitions. In their petition dated March 20, Obi claimed he is the winner of the election and that Tinubu did not score the highest number of votes at the election. Obi had in the petition filed by him and his party at the Election Tribunal demanded nullification of the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.

AA, APM also file petition seeking to nullify presidential election results By: Sunday Ejike | Abuja THE presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP),

“Members of the U.S. 93C 4483 between the USA verses Funds in three different foreign accounts in the name of Bola Tinubu. “That it be determined that the 2nd Respondent (Tinubu) having failed to score one- quarter of the votes cast at the Presidential Election in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, was not entitled to be declared and returned as the winner of the presidential election held on 25 February, 2023.” Ozoukwu argued that the president-elect, “was not duly elected by majority of the lawful votes cast at the time of the election”, and urged the tribunal to determine that, at the time of the presidential election held on 25 February, 2023, Tinubu and Shettima were not qualified to contest the election. “That, it be determined that the Certificate of Return wrongly issued to the second respondent (Tinubu) by the first respondent (INEC) is null, void and be set aside,” the petitioners prayed and further argued that the Feb- ruary 25 presidential election is void on the grounds that it was not conducted substantially in accordance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 and the constitution. THE presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi and his party have filed a petition at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, challenging the declaration of the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the Febru- ary 25 presidential election.

THE Presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, Labour Paty (LP), Peter Obi; Action Alliance (AA), Chichi Ojei and ...

The Labor Party Presidential candidate Peter OBI has filed his petition to the presidential elections tribunal in Abuja. The process of reclaiming the people’s mandate has started.” he tweeted. On its part, the APM asserted that due to the requirements of sections 131(c) and 142 of the Constitution and section 35 of the Electoral Act 2022, Tinubu was not eligible to run in the election at the time of the election. “That it be determined that based on the remaining votes (after discountenancing the votes credited to the second respondent), the first petitioner (Obi) scored a majority of the lawful votes cast at the election and had not less than 25 per cent of the votes cast in each of at least two-thirds of the states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and satisfied the constitutional requirements to be declared the winner of the February 25, 2023, presidential election.” [PDP](https://www.icirnigeria.org/pdp-rejects-tinubus-victory-says-atiku-won-presidential-poll/) and [LP](https://www.icirnigeria.org/i-won-presidential-election-peter-obi-says-vows-to-reclaim-mandate/) candidates had since [rejected](https://www.icirnigeria.org/legal-battle-court-grants-atiku-obi-access-to-election-materials/) the outcome of the election and vowed to challenge it in court. [announced](https://www.icirnigeria.org/inec-declares-tinubu-president-elect/) the result of the election on March 1.

(Bloomberg) -- The Nigerian opposition candidates that came second and third in last month's presidential election filed court petitions contesting the ...

A spokesperson for the campaign council of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, Festus Keyamo SAN, has expressed confidence that all petitions challenging.

“I am excited about the issues raised in those Election Petitions. Part of the issues raised by Obi include a judgement of United States District court which allegedly fined Tinubu 460,000 US dollars for dealing in narcotics as well as the non-compliance with the Electoral Act 2022 by the Independent National Electoral Commission during the presidential election. Obi’s lawyers had raised several issues in his petition, insisting that relying on all electoral materials, they would prove that he won with the majority of votes cast in the February 25 presidential election.

Bayo Onanuga, a media aide to the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has claimed that Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, ...

They want an order demanding that INEC retrieves the certificate of return issued to Tinubu and issue a fresh one to Obi. Obi and the Labour Party, LP, are challenging Tinubu’s status as the winner of the February 25, 2023, presidential election. He likened Obi’s move to challenge the 2023 presidential election results to how the 1993 election of MKO Abiola was invalidated by IBB.