The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday in Abuja ruled that the petition of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Gregory Obi, was greatly incompetent and defective beyond repairs.
In a ruling on several objections against the petition, the Tribunal struck out several paragraphs of the petition for being vague, incompetent, inconsistent, nebulous and self-contradictory.
In a ruling delivered by Justice Abba Mohammed, Obi’s petition was said to have raised several general allegations of malpractices, irregularities, and corruption without being specific as required by law.
The Tribunal held that while Obi claimed to have scored the highest number of lawful votes in the February 25 presidential election, he failed completely to state or specify the number of lawful votes he claimed to have won.
Justice Mohammed said to worsen the situation, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate pleaded for a report of forensic experts but failed to file the report along with the petition or serve the same on the respondents in the petition.
Besides, Justice Mohammed said Obi’s claim that his votes were suppressed in favour of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress APC was vague because he failed to give out any figure of votes to establish the claim.