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Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi have rubbished written address filed by Bola Tinubu of All Progressives Congress (APC) following the ongoing petition challenging the latter’s victory at the Presidential Election Tribunal Court (PEPC).
In the written address dated July 14, the 2nd and 3rd respondents led by Wole Olanikpekun (SAN), faulted the claims of Obi’s witnesses while warning the Tribunal that misinterpreting the law as provided for in the constitution on the 25% of lawful votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, could “lead to absurdity, chaos, anarchy and alteration of the very intention of the legislature.”In a counter attack, the petitioners in their final written address filed by Obi’s lead counsel, Livy Uzoukwu (SAN), to the 2nd and 3rd respondents, said there will only be anarchy if the rule of law is truncated.
This is a cheap, misguided, and destructive blackmail clearly intended to target the country’s judicialism and constitutionalism. It also aims at cannibalising our democracy.
“When has it become offensive for Petitioners to canvass a ground prescribed for the challenge of an election in section 134(1)(b) of the Electoral Act? Desperation taken too far can be extremely dangerous. Let the 2nd and 3rd Respondents (Tinubu and Shettima) know that where the rule of law is trampled upon or truncated, anarchy reigns supreme,” the written address partly read.
Meanwhile, Obi has given a new warning to trolls who he alleged were working to smear him and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed ahead of the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC.Obi made the assertion in a statement made available to Hobnob News against the background of what he also claimed as his concerns over attempts to distract and defocus the judiciary from the critical assignment of adjudicating issues before it.
