The Presidential Election Petition Court has dropped the suit filed to challenge the election of President Bola Tinubu by Peter Obi and the Labour Party.
This most recent development is the result of an inconsistent scheduling of documents submitted to the court as evidence of the claims of irregularities during the presidential election on February 25.
The court identified a few discrepancies in the documents from the 23 Local Government Areas in Benue State during its sessions on Thursday.
While efforts to reach a compromise fell short, Chief Emeka Okpoko, SAN, the attorney for Obi and the Labour Party, was dismissed for using documents that had not been filed to conduct the proceedings on the grounds that they were unlawful.
The court thereafter stepped down hearing of the petition and ordered the legal team to go and re-file the schedule of documents in line with the provisions of the pre-hearing report.
Peter Obi and the Vice Presidential candidate of LP, Datti Baba Ahmed, alongside the leaders of the Party, were in the court, to witness the proceedings.
The five Justices led by Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani hearing the petition had also retired to their chambers while Obi’s legal team reconciled their documents.
