In a press briefing held on Thursday, prominent Nigerian politician and former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, openly rejected the judgement delivered by the Presidential Election Petitions Court.
Obi expressed his dissatisfaction with the ruling, which confirmed the victory of the incumbent president, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in the recently concluded elections.
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Speaking in front of a packed audience at the press conference venue in Onitsha, Obi, who ran on the platform of Labour Party and came distant third in the election during the presidential election, voiced his disappointment with the court’s decision.
“As petitioners in this case, we respect the views and rulings of the Court, but we disagree with the Court’s reasoning and conclusions in the judgment it delivered. It is my intention as a presidential candidate and the intention of the Labour Party to challenge this judgment by way of appeal immediately, as allowed by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”
“Our legal team has already received our firm instruction to file an appeal against the decision. I shall not relent in the quest for justice, not necessarily for myself but indeed for our teeming supporters all over the country and beyond whose mandate to us at the polls was regrettably truncated by INEC,” he said.
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