{"id":98044,"date":"2023-09-07T13:13:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/07\/obis-claim-that-a-candidate-must-get-25-of-fct-votes-to-become-president-is-fallacious-tribunal\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:13:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:13:35","slug":"obis-claim-that-a-candidate-must-get-25-of-fct-votes-to-become-president-is-fallacious-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/09\/07\/obis-claim-that-a-candidate-must-get-25-of-fct-votes-to-become-president-is-fallacious-tribunal\/","title":{"rendered":"Obi\u2019s Claim that A Candidate Must Get 25% of FCT Votes to Become President Is Fallacious \u2014Tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>As reported by the Abuja-based newspaper Punch, the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal found that the entire petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its candidate in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, against the acclaimed winner of the election, Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was clearly based on rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the court dismissed the petition with prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Haruna Tsammani, who presided over the panel of judges, dismissed a central argument advanced by the LP in its petition\u2014that a candidate must receive 25 percent of the vote in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) before being declared president\u2014as \u201cfallacious and incredibly ridiculous\u201d in delivering the panel\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The presiding judge stated:<\/p>\n<p>Legal representation for the LP argues that the second respondent shouldn\u2019t have been proclaimed victor since he didn\u2019t score 25% or higher on the FCT. This is an absurd and unconvincing argument.<\/p>\n<p>In their petition, the LP and Obi also argued that Tinubu was disqualified from running for office due to an ongoing forfeiture case in the United States and that the results weren\u2019t being transmitted to the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV) in real time.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Trustnews1 (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAll Progressives Congress<br \/>Bola Ahmed Tinubu<br \/>LP<br \/>Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal<br \/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by the Abuja-based newspaper Punch, the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal found that the entire petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its candidate in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, against the acclaimed winner of the election, Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was clearly based on rhetoric. 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