President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima have petitioned the Presidential Election case Court in Abuja to reject the case filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate Peter Obi.
In their final written response to Obi and Labour Party’s petition, Wole Olanipekun (SAN), counsel for Tinubu and Shettima, called the contender’s arguments and witness testimony “frivolous, bogus, and based on hearsay.”
He asked the court to reject the petition since it was wholly without merit and substance in his written speech.
According to him, there is no legal basis for the “remote” petitioners’ claim that his client’s election should be invalidated because he did not receive 25% or one quarter of the votes recorded in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as the constitutional use of “and” is conjunctive rather than disjunctive.
His statement read: “This case clearly cries to high heavens in vain to be fed with relevant and admissible evidence.
“The appellant woefully failed to realise that judges do not act like the oracles of life, which is often engaged in crystal gazing and thereafter would proclaim a new Oba in succession to a deceased Oba.”
Source: Leadership paper
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