{"id":2977,"date":"2023-09-06T14:49:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T14:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2023-09-06T14:49:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T14:49:17","slug":"tribunal-strikes-out-parts-of-obi-lps-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/tribunal-strikes-out-parts-of-obi-lps-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribunal strikes out parts of Obi, LP\u2019s petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has struck out about 17 paragraphs from the petition brought before it by Peter Obi and the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>The court struck out the paragraphs for containing \u201cvague and generic allegations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the tribunal\u2019s five-member panel, Justice Abba Mohammed, read the lead judgment.<\/p>\n<p>Obi and LP are complainants in the petition marked CA\/PEPC\/03\/2023, challenging the election which brought Tinubu to power on May 29.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioners made allegations of irregularities and said they would rely on spreadsheets, inspection reports and forensic analysis filed with the petition during the trial.<\/p>\n<p>But in his lead judgement, Mohammed held that the petitioners failed to show which polling units the malpractices alleged occurred; the number of votes affected; and their polling unit agents who reported the alleged irregularities, and malpractices, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Details\u00a0later\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has struck out about 17 paragraphs from the petition brought before it by Peter Obi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2979,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/2979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}