Peter Obi officially petitions Presidential Election Tribunal

Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) has officially filed a petition to the Presidential Electoral Tribunal to begin a process it claimed marked “reclaiming the People’s mandate.”

This was confirmed by Chief Spokesman of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council (LPPCC) Party, Tanko Yunusa on his Twitter handle.

The post reads: “It is official that the Labor Party Presidential candidate Peter OBI has filed his petition to the presidential elections tribunal in Abuja. The process of reclaiming the people’s mandate has started.”

His petition comes four months after the end of the February 25 presidential elections that declared Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the president-elect.

Although Tanko did not reveal why it took his principal this long to file the petition, a source within the party disclosed that the former governor of Anambra State wanted to properly collate materials to back up his claim of massive rigging, voters intimidation and corruption allegation against the electoral umpire, The Punch reports.

“You know Obi doesn’t like talking without getting facts. That’s why he took his time before he officially filed his case at the tribunal,” he said.

Recall that Tanko told The PUNCH last Tuesday that the lawyers of the LP presidential candidate were making progress with their inspection of electoral data after they were granted access to gather some relevant information from the materials supplied.