The final legal battle for the contentious February 25th, 2023, Presidential Election begins with the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Gregory Obi, and the Labour Party, filing an appeal against the September 6, 2023 ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC.
Obi and LP’s team of lawyers led by Dr Livy Uzokwu, SAN, on Tuesday, September 19, 2023, complied with the statutory deadline for the filing of the Appeal and approached the apex court on 51 grounds, which they termed an error in law to prove that the All Progressives Congress, APC Presidential Candidate in the election, Bola Ahmed Tinubu did not win the election and that it was wrong for both INEC and the PEPC to declare him winner of the election when many incontrovertible points were proving otherwise.
In enunciating their grounds Obi and the Labour Party sought from the apex Court, four key points: