The presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and his counterpart in the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, have asked the Presidential Election Court (PEC) in Abuja to allow them to inspect materials used for the February 25 election.
Their request, according to The Nation, is contained in two ex-parte motions they filed at the PEC secretariat at the Court of Appeal, Abuja
Both motions, with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and two others as respondents, are listed for hearing today, Friday, March 3
While Atiku filed his motion on Wednesday, March 1, Obi’s was filed on Thursday, March 2.
Peter Obi and Labour Party have taken legal steps to challenge the presidential election. They’ve filed a motion seeking permission to inspect materials and also obtain certified copies of documents in the custody of INEC.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officially declared APC’s Tinubu as the winner of Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Election.
Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of INEC, declared Tinubu, a former Lagos governor, the winner of the keenly contested election in the early hours of Wednesday, March 1, in Abuja.
He announced that Tinubu polled 8,794,726 to defeat his closest rivals, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), scoring 6,984,520 and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), who scored 6,101,533.
Meanwhile, contrary to INEC’s declaration, Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party in the last presidential election, has insisted he defeated Tinubu, the president-elect.
Insisting that a new Nigeria is possible and that he will work for it, Obi argued that he won the election and will prove it.
The former Anambra governor during a press briefing aired by Arise News on Thursday, March 2, claimed that the 2023 presidential election is a clear deviation from what Nigerians were promised, adding that the electorate has again been robbed by supposed leaders.
