PEPC Strikes Out Parts Of Petition By Peter Obi, Labour Party For Being Vague
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has struck out about 17 paragraphs of the petition by Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) for containing vague and generic allegations. In a ruling on some motions filed by the respondents to the petition, the court held that in the affected paragraphs, the petitioners made allegations of malpractices and irregularities in the conduct...
Court Strikes Out Several Paragraphs Of LP’s Tribunal Petition For Being Generic, Vague
The tribunal said the affected paragraphs failed to name the specific polling units where irregularities occurred. Tribunal went onto say, "They also failed to prove that their votes were suppressed by failing to specify the number of votes suppressed." The justice went on to say, "Labour Party failed to state the number of votes affected and the number of people disenfranchised,"...
Presidential Election Tribunal Strikes Out APM’s Petition Against Vice President Kashim Shettima
Presidential Election Tribunal Strikes Out APM's Petition Against Vice President Kashim Shettima. “The suit on disqualification of Shettima based on eligibility duly struck out. We don’t have jurisdiction over that because it’s a Pre-Election matter” More details to follow...
Election Presidential: Tribunal Judges arrive courtroom
Justices of the Election Presidential Tribunal arrived at the court at about 9:27 a.m. to deliver judgment on three petitions that are seeking to remove President Bola Tinubu from office. Wednesday’s judgment will be delivered by the Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Haruna Tsammani, assisted by other members of the panel: Justices Stephen Adah, Monsurat Bolaji-Yusuf, Moses Ugo, and Abba...
Presidential Election Dispute: Obi’s Petition To Be Decided First
The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, in Abuja, has disclosed that its first judgement will be on the petition the Labour Party, LP, and its candidate, Peter Obi, filed to challenge President Bola Tinubu’s election. The Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five member panel of the court commenced sitting around 9:30am. The panel, which is currently taking appearances of lawyers representing all the...
PEPT: Peter Obi Cannot Get Victory At Tribunal –Nigerian Prophet, Primate Ayodele, Makes Revelation
The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has advised Nigerians not to expect much from the presidential election petition tribunal, which will be sitting tomorrow. ABN TV reports that the prophet made the declaration in a statement signed by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin. According to him, a rerun of the election is not certain because the powers...
Judgment Today In Tinubu/Atiku/Obi Election Disputes
Today is judgment day in the disputes that arose over the February 25 presidential election which President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won. Three other political parties – main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party (LP), and Allied Peoples Movement (APM) – challenged the outcome of the poll. They filed their disputes over the result...
Judiciary Should Not Decide Election Winners – Bode George
Chief Bode George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has called on the Nigerian judiciary to uphold the people’s choice and not select winners during an electoral process. He made this remark while speaking on Arise News on Tuesday monitored by ABN TV. “I want to appeal to the judiciary on moral suasion purposes that democracy...
Our Democracy Not Working, Ex-Ekiti Gov Fayemi Says
Former governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi, says democracy in the country is not working despite the end of the military administration in 1999. This is as Fayemi said the protest that trailed the fuel subsidy removal during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2012 was due to political interests. He spoke Tuesday in Abuja while delivering a keynote address...
Tribunal Sacks Senator Isah, Orders Supplementary Election
The Kogi East Senatorial Election Tribunal sitting in Lokoja has sacked Senator Jibrin Isah, (Echocho), the Senate Committee Chairman on Customs Excise and Tariffs, cancelling the election in 94 polling units in the district. Consequently, the chairman of the Tribunal, Justice K.A. Orjiako, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a supplementary election in the affected 94 polling...
