The Lamidi Apapa faction of the Labour Party (LP) has finally opened up about the real reason why Peter Obi lost the case at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Recall that the Presidential tribunal on Wednesday September 6 struck out Peter Obi’s petition against President Bola Tinubu
The Tribunal said Peter Obi only made “generic accusations of irregularities” in the election but failed to specify the anomaly, the places where it occurred, and those affected.
Speaking during an interview with The PUNCH, the Apapa faction’s spokesman Abayomi Arabambi while reacting to the Tribunal judgment alleged that the National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure and Peter Obi could not provide results of polling units at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal because they did not pay party agents.
Arabambi alleged that the majority of the agents went away with the result sheets of the polling units when the party failed to pay them their stipend of N10,000 as promised.
The Labour Party chieftain described Obi’s plan to appeal the tribunal’s judgment as a waste of time and resources.
He said, “Ab initio, no (polling) agent was paid and I remember telling Nigerians it is something that may affect us after the election. None of my agents was paid. Out of the over 190,000 polling units, we only presented to INEC that we have agents in over 130,000.
“The remaining was not uploaded. Even in the 130,000 we had, no agent submitted his polling unit result to Peter Obi. We owed them N10,000 each.
“You went to court without Form EC8 and those lawyers were unable to tabulate the total number of votes that Obi claimed he garnered.
“Those respected judges were so thorough and nobody should abuse them. They were only asking questions in line with the relevant Electoral Act and Constitution of Nigeria”.
Arabambi further stated that it would be a waste of time if Obi raised the issue of double nominations by Vice President Kashim Shettima because the case has been settled at the apex court.
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