The Lamidi Apapa-led faction of Labour Party said it warned its Presidential candidate in the February 25 Presidential election Peter Obi not to pursue any case, saying that this will only result to ‘chasing a wild goose’.
National Publicity Secretary of the faction, Abayomi Arabambi, who stated this while reacting to the verdict of the Presidential Election Tribunal, which strike out Obi’s petition against the election of President Bola Tinubu.
Arabambi said, “it is a shame that the legal team of Mr Peter Obi failed to advice him properly before going to the tribunal.
While saying that the party accepted the verdict without any bias, Arabambi noted that the whole process is a waste of time.
“Peter Obi has just gone on a wild goose chase. Imagine the candidate that failed to fund the party in order to engage the number of required polling agents, also the filing of the witnesses outside the stipulated time has shown that the legal team is a failure.
“Some of us have been saying that Peter Obi decided to go to the tribunal to justify all the money he collected during the campaign, all that money was corruptly syphoned”.
“Its unfortunate that Obi failed to convince the Tribunal those polling units where he was rigged out.
The tribunal also said that he “made generic allegations of irregularities against the respondent without specifying the polling units
“The petitioners alleged irregularities and will use spreadsheets, inspection reports, and forensic analysis as evidence in the trial
