Peter Obi vs INEC, Tinubu, Shettima and APC: Presidential Election Petition Tribunal - (Part Two)
PART TWO!
PETER OBI & LP VS INEC, APC, BOLA TINUBU & KASHIM SHETTIMA
OBI’S PETITION PARAGRAPH 4 READS: Peter Obi’s petition was duly sponsored by Labour Party’s petition on whose platform Peter Obi contested the election. LP & Obi shall at trial rely on Peter Obi’s nomination documents filed with INEC.
INEC’S RESPONSE: We deny paragraph 4 because we put the petitioners to the strictest proof.
APC’S RESPONSE: We vehemently deny paragraph 4 of the petition and state that Peter Obi was not duly and validly nominated or sponsored by LP and as such could not have been sponsored by LP to contest the election into the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
TINUBU & SHETTIMA’S RESPONSE: We deny paragraph 4 because Tinubu has always been a most consistent politician who has not shifted political tendency and alignment whereas, Peter Obi has consistently crisscrossed different political parties.
OBI’S PETITION PARAGRAPH 5 READS: Peter Obi was a candidate at the election and had the right to be returned as the duly elected candidate at the election.
INEC’S RESPONSE: We admit paragraph 5 only to the extent that Obi was a candidate at the election, but we deny that he has a right to be returned as elected, not having polled most of the lawful votes cast at the election.
APC’S RESPONSE: Obi had no right to be voted for at the questioned election based on his party-hopping and ticket-shopping conduct, and LP is jointly foreclosed likewise for fielding him having aided and abetted Obi through sponsorship racketeering which paraded him as its presidential candidate. (These were APC’s exact words).
TINUBU & SHETTIMA’S RESPONSE: Obi swore that he will never leave APGA and that he will die with APGA. Later, he left APGA to join the PDP and later left PDP to join LP almost on the eve of the primary election held on May 30th, 2022. Peter Obi was the VP-Presidential candidate of the PDP in 2019 and he was always in court to represent the PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar.
To be continued.
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