Twelve legal practitioners are part of Peter Obi’s legal
team to challenge the victory of President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, in order of
seniority, are Dr Livy Uzoukwu, Chief Awa Kalu, Dr Onyechi Ikpeazu, P.I.N.
Ikwueto, Chief Ben Anyachebe.
Others include S.T. Hon, Arthur Obi Okafor, Ik Ezechukwu,
J.S. Okutepa, Dr Mrs Valerie Azinge, Emeka Okpoko, and Alex Ejesieme.
“These are not all the Senior Advocates on the team. More
are still signing up,” an inside source disclosed
On Wednesday, the Court of Appeal in Abuja will rule on the
application filed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
INEC is seeking to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter
Accreditation System, BVAS, used to conduct the 2023 presidential election on
February 25.
On Tuesday, the legal team of the Labour Party presidential
candidate moved a motion to stop INEC from tampering with the evidence in a
matter going to the Presidential Election Tribunal.
The lawyers argued that the data on the BVAS contains the
substance of Obi’s case against INEC’s “unlawful manipulation” of the February
25 election results and processes.
They informed the court that its forensic experts had not
been granted access to INEC systems to inspect them before the said transfer of
data.
But the umpire said it will transfer the data on the BVAS to
a backup server ahead of the governorship and state legislative elections
billed for March 11.
The case is being heard by a three-person Court of Appeal
panel headed by Justice Joseph Ikyegh.
INEC declared Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives
Congress, APC, the winner last Wednesday.
The three main opposition parties, LP; Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP; New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP; have all rejected the results.
On February 28, the LP and PDP called for the resignation of
the INEC chairman Prof Mahmood Yakubu and the cancellation of the election.
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CORRECTION: Nobody is challenging the victory of Bola Tinubu because there was no victory in the first place. There was a very subtle collaboration champion by INEC to shut down the INEC server thus being unable to upload results online real time. The INEC chairman has murdered sleep and for rest of his life he will be hunt by that action. For Nigerians we have no president and we will not recognise Bola Tinubu no matter what he does. He stole the peoples mandate not victory at all.
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