Nigeria’s ongoing Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal has held that the Labour Pary (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, were unable to show how they scored the majority of lawful votes in the February 25 presidential election.
Reading the lead judgment, Justice Abba Bello Mohammed, said the political party made generic allegations of irregularities, suppression of votes and corrupt practices to rob them of their votes, especially in Rivers, Benue, Lagos, Taraba, Imo and Osun states but couldn’t specify the polling units where it happened.
Justice Mohammed also held that LP was unable to prove the allegations of overvoting against the All Progressives Congress (APC) and their actual reduced votes.
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