The Lamidi Apapa section of the Labour Party (LP) has now disclosed the real reason why Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) defeated Peter Obi in his appeal before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
Recall how on Wednesday, September 6, the Presidential Tribunal dismissed Peter Obi’s complaint against President Bola Tinubu.
The Tribunal claimed that Peter Obi failed to specify the anomaly, the places it occurred, or the individuals it had an effect on, instead only making “generic accusations of irregularities” in the election.
In an interview with The PUNCH, the spokesman for the Apapa faction asserted that Julius Abure, the party’s national chairman, and Peter Obi were unable to provide polling unit results at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal because they had not compensated party agents in response to the Tribunal’s ruling.
According to Arabambi, the majority of the agents allegedly fled with the polling unit result sheets when the party failed to give the agents the N10,000 compensation they had been promised.
The Labour Party leader believed Obi was wasting his time and money by appealing the tribunal’s decision.
In the beginning, no (polling) agent was paid, he claimed, adding that he had previously forewarned Nigerians that this might have an effect on them after the election. One or more of my agents were not paid. There was no upload of the other locations; we merely informed INEC that we had agents in more than 130,000 of the more than 190,000 polling locations. Out of the 130,000 we had, no agent gave Peter Obi the results of his voting unit. They were owed N10,000 each.
You failed to bring Form EC8, which stopped those solicitors from figuring out how many votes Obi claimed to have got.Since they were so thorough, no one should mistreat those respected judges. Only the pertinent provisions of the Nigerian Constitution and Electoral Act were used to guide their investigations.
Arabambi claimed that since the supreme court had already reached a decision in the case, it would be pointless for Obi to bring up the issue of Kashim Shettima’s many nominations.
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