Tribunal Finds Peter Obi Unable to Substantiate Claims of Overvoting and Result Alteration

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The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) has ruled that Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), did not provide sufficient evidence to substantiate claims of corrupt practices during the presidential election.

Justice Haruna Tsammani declared that Obi was unable to establish the allegations of non-compliance with the Electoral Act in the previous presidential election.

Tsammani specifically addressed the issues raised by Obi regarding corrupt practices that supposedly tainted the election, such as voter suppression, vote inflation, result tampering, and overvoting.

The presiding judge emphasized that certain paragraphs related to these accusations had previously been dismissed due to their vague and generic nature, lacking specific details.

He noted that Obi failed to provide any credible evidence to prove his allegations of “suppression of votes, wrong computation of results, manipulation of results, and inflation of results.”

On overvoting, Tsammani said Obi could not “specify the number of votes and the margin of lead affected by overvoting” and, therefore, “the petitioners failed to establish the allegations of corrupt practices.”

Source: dailypost.ng

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