The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has removed 17 paragraphs from the petition filed by Peter Obi and the Labour Party, citing them as “vague and generic allegations.”
Justice Abba Mohammed, a member of the tribunal’s five-member panel, delivered the lead judgment in this decision.
Obi and the Labour Party are the complainants in the petition, marked CA/PEPC/03/2023, challenging the election that brought President Tinubu to power on May 29.
In their petition, the complainants alleged irregularities and indicated their reliance on spreadsheets, inspection reports, and forensic analysis submitted with the petition during the trial.
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But in his lead judgement, Mohammed held that the petitioners failed to show which polling units the malpractices alleged occurred; the number of votes affected; and their polling unit agents who reported the alleged irregularities, and malpractices, among others.