The All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday, prayed the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, against the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the Prresident-elect in the Feb. 25 election.
The APC, the 4th respondent, urged the PEPC to reject the petition in its notice of preliminary objection marked: CA/PEPC/03/2023 and filed at PEPC’s Secretariat, Monday night, by Thomas Ojo, a member of the party’s legal team led by Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, in Abuja.
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The party asked the tribunal to dismiss the petition with substantial cost on the grounds that it lacked merit and was frivolous.
The APC prayed the court to dismiss the suit on the ground that Obi, the 1st petitioner, lacked requisite locus standi to institute the petition, because he was not a member of LP at least 30 days to the party’s presidential primary to be validly sponsored by the party.
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It said: “The 1st petitioner (Obi) was a member of PDP until May 24, 2022.
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