{"id":104958,"date":"2023-05-23T14:34:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T13:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=104958"},"modified":"2023-05-23T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T13:34:46","slug":"breaking-pepc-grants-obi-lp-three-weeks-to-prove-case-consolidates-the-three-petitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-pepc-grants-obi-lp-three-weeks-to-prove-case-consolidates-the-three-petitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: PEPC grants Obi, LP three weeks to prove case, consolidates the three petitions\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), Abuja on Tuesday granted Mr. Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) three weeks to prove their case challenging the outcome for the 2023 election.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Justice Haruna Tsammani, reading the the trial schedule on behalf of the five-member panel of the tribunal, said trial on Obi&#8217;s petition begins on May 30 and ends on June 23.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It will be recalled that the LP legal team had requested for seven weeks to prosecute the case; However, the Court reduced that number to three weeks so as to manage time and meet up with the statutory 180 days as required by the law.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Obi in the petition marked: CA\/PEPC\/03\/2023, is praying the court to nullify the victory of the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the February 25 Presidential Election for non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Justice Tsammani also ruled that all the three petitions before the court will be consolidated to one, in line with Paragraph 50 of the the first schedule of the Electoral Act.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Paragraph states: \u201cWhere two or more petitions are presented in relation to the same election or return, all the petitions shall be consolidated, considered and be dealt with as one petition unless the tribunal or court shall otherwise direct in order to do justice or an objection against one or more of the petitions has been upheld by the tribunal or court.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Details later&#8230;<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), Abuja on Tuesday granted Mr. Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) three weeks to prove their case challenging the outcome for the 2023&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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