Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s nominee for president in the recently held elections, was conspicuously absent from the tribunal session.
The troubled LP chairman, Julius Abure, stated that he was filling in for petitioner Peter Obi at 9:34 am when Tribunal Chairman Justice Haruna Tsammani requested for the introduction of petitioners and responses.
The first respondent was Abdullahi Ganduje, the chairman of the All Progressives Congress, followed by Vice President Kashim Shettima.
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president and candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), and the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) filed the petitions, which were marked CA/PEPC/03/2023, CA/PEPC/05/2023, and CA/PEPC/04/2023, before the court.
The ruling All Progressives Congress candidate, Tinubu, defeated 17 other contenders in the February 25 presidential election, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, which declared the results on March 1.
With 8,794,726 votes, Tinubu was proclaimed the winner, surpassing the combined total of 6,984,520 votes for Alhaji Atiku of the PDP and 6,101,533 votes for Mr. Obi of the LP, the other main candidate.
Both Atiku and Obi filed court petitions to have the election results declared void because they were unhappy with the results.
