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Presidential Tribunal: Obi absent in court as Abure stands in

Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s Presidential Candidate in the recently concluded presidential elections, was conspicuously absent from the tribunal hearing, according to Reports.

When the Tribunal’s Chairman, Justice Haruna Tsammani, requested for the introduction of petitioners and respondents at 9:34 a.m., the LP’s embattled chairman, Julius Abure, noted that he was standing in for the petitioner, Peter Obi.

The Vice-President, Kashim Shettima, spoke first, followed by the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje.

According to the PUNCH, the tribunal’s Chairman, Justice Haruna Tsammani, will deliver the decision on Wednesday, assisted by other members of the panel: Justices Stephen Adah, Monsurat Bolaji-Yusuf, Moses Ugo, and Abba Mohammed.

The petitions, marked: CA/PEPC/03/2023, CA/PEPC/05/2023 and CA/PEPC/04/2023, were lodged before the court by the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi; a former Vice President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; as well as the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, respectively.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had on March 1, announced that Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress won the presidential election held on February 25, ahead of 17 other candidates that participated in the contest.

It declared that Tinubu scored a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat the two major contenders, Alhaji Atiku of the PDP, who came second with a total of 6,984,520 votes, and Mr. Obi of the LP, who came third with a total of 6,101,533 votes.

Dissatisfied with the outcome of the election, both Atiku and Obi approached the court to have it invalidated.

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