The case brought before the Supreme Court by rival presidential candidates Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi challenging Tinubu's election had already been thrown out by the Elections Petition Court in September (AC Vol 64 No 5 Tinubu's last trick: from godfather to Kabiyesi)...
Also on 6 September Appeal Court judges in Abuja led by Justice Haruna Tsammani threw out an election petition filed by Peter Obi and the Labour Party arguing that Tinubu had won the presidency by corrupt practices and over-voting...
One of Nigeria's top private universities Baze is owned by Datti Baba-Ahmed Peter Obi's 2023 running mate...
Despite some grouses from rival presidential candidates Atiku Abubakar of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party opposition politicians haven't organised any effective pushback to the reforms...
Ending the fuel subsidy was a policy plank on which the top three candidates – Tinubu Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi – agreed...
9m and the Labour Party's Peter Obi with 6...
In Lagos a candidate on the ticket of Peter Obi's Labour Party is challenging the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)...
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The Lagos court endorsed the request from Peter Obi's Labour Party that all results sheet in the 11 March state elections should be recorded digitally by INEC officials and transmitted to the regional collation centres digitally...
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At one end of the stage stands the official winner Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose victory was announced in the darkest hour before dawn on 1 March; at the other the thwarted opposition candidates Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi who are railing against systemic electoral fraud and threaten legal appeals to the Supreme Court (Dispatches 28/2/23 Tinubu edges to Presidential win as opposition and activists dispute the results)...
If many of the local and international opinion polls on Nigeria's presidential elections on 25 February prove accurate then Peter Obi the multi-millionaire banker standing on the Labour Party ticket should be coasting to victory...
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2m votes and Peter Obi of the Labour Party with 25% or some 5...
On 27 February former President Olusegun Obasanjo a keen supporter of Peter Obi said that INEC should not accept any results without digital verification as this would contravene electoral law...
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