Following its loss at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) which sat at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, Peter Obi, Labour Party presidential candidate, on Tuesday filed an appeal at the Supreme Court challenging the ruling of the PEPC.
A statement from the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Obiorah Ifoh, said that the LP and its team of lawyers led by “Dr Livy Uzokwu SAN beat the deadline for the filing of the Appeal and are approaching the apex court on 51 grounds which they termed an error in law to prove that the All Progressives Congress, APC Presidential Candidate in the election, Bola Ahmed Tinubu did not win the election and that it was wrong for both INEC and the PEPC to declare him winner of the election when many incontrovertible points were proving otherwise.”
Ifoh also revealed that “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 yet has been fixed for the hearing of the case.”
