5th March, 2023
Labour Party (LP) has reportedly engaged the services of at least 20 senior advocates of Nigeria to challenge the outcome of the February 25 presidential election on behalf of its presidential candidate, Dr Peter Obi.
PUNCH on Sunday quoted sources as saying lawyers drawn from different chambers were being furnished with materials that would be used as evidence in court.
The president-elect and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, was announced the winner of the keenly contested election last Wednesday.
Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and the LP flag bearer, who got 6,984,520 and 6,101,533 votes respectively.
However, the PDP candidate, Atiku Abubakar and the LP candidate, Peter Obi rejected the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), with each claiming at separate press conferences claiming victory.
The two major opposition candidates were reported to have approached the court to seek permission for the inspection of election materials used during the poll.
“We have more than 20 SANs that are willing to participate and offer their services for the renewal and emergence of a new Nigeria. As I am talking to you, our lawyers are working on it.
“But this is not something we can discuss on the pages of a newspaper. All I can tell you is that we have started ‘trekking’ to the court,” the newspaper quoted National Secretary of the Labour Party, Umar Farouk, as saying.