The Labour Party’s Presidential Candidate, Peter Gregory Obi, and the Party have appealed against the September 6, 2023 ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC).
A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh said, Obi and LP’s team of lawyers led by Dr Livy Uzokwu SAN were able to beat the deadline for the filing of the Appeal
He said Obi and his party are appealing on 51 grounds which they described as error in law to prove that the All Progressives Congress, (APC) Presidential Candidate in the election, Bola Ahmed Tinubu did not win the election.
They also avered that it was wrong for both INEC and the PEPC to declare him winner of the election when many incontrovertible points were proving them otherwise.
In their reliefs Obi and the Labour Party sought from the apex Court, four key points; Allow the Appeal, set aside the perverse Judgment of the PEPC, and grant the Reliefs sought in the petition, either in the main or in the alternative.
On the issue of the 25% requirement for Abuja, Obi and the Labour Party listed the particulars of error by the PEPC as follows;
That the PEPC failed to appreciate that for the President to assume the office or position of the Governor of Abuja, is also under a mandate to secure 25% of the votes cast in the FCT.
They also accused the PEPC of overlooking the fuller purport of section 299 which will be more glaring on a calm examination of section 301 of the constitution.
No date has been fixed for the hearing of the case yet.