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Peter Obi Wins In Court Of Appeal Over Petition Seeking To Disqualify Him
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has dismissed an appeal by the Allied Peoples Movement…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has dismissed an appeal by the Allied Peoples Movement, (APM), seeking to disqualify the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi from the February 25 general election.
VerseNews Nigeria reports that the Movement In the appeal marked: CA/ABJ/CV/1414/2022, had approached the court, contending that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ought not to have recognized Obi as a valid candidate for the presidential poll.
The party told the court that the period of Obi’s defected from Peoples Democratic Party (PD) to LP for the purpose of contesting the presidential election was in violation of sections 77(2) and (3) of the Electoral Act, 2022.
They argued that before Obi’s defection, the LP already sent a list of its registered members to the INEC.
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According to the appellant, Obi lacked the right to be recognized as the LP flag bearer because his name was not on the list of the party members that was submitted to INEC.
APM further urged the court to set aside the Federal High Court judgment which dismissed the suit it filed to challenge Obi’s candidacy.
Delivering judgment, a three-member panel of Justices, the appellate court unanimously said there was no merit in the appeal filed by APM.
This Online News Media reports that this is one of the grounds the All Progressives Congress (APC) Candidate and President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu presented to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in response against Obi’s Petition.
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