{"id":106679,"date":"2023-08-02T08:24:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T07:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=106679"},"modified":"2023-08-02T08:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T07:24:49","slug":"breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: We\u2019ve proved our case, Obi\u2019s lawyer tells PEPC, as Court reserves judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), on Tuesday, said it will deliver judgment on the petition by Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) on a date to be announced later.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Obi had gone to court after the controversial February 25 presidential election to seek a declaration of the tribunal that he actually won the poll.<\/p>\n<p>The Professor Yakubu Mahmoud-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Bola Tinubu, candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), winner of the poll.<\/p>\n<p>Both local and international election observers have criticized the poll as lacking in integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Haruna Tsammani, the Presiding Justice of the court, made the announcement a moment ago after lawyers to petitioners and the respondents adopted their final written addresses and made their last submissions.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer to the petitioners, Livy Uzoukwu (SAN), argued that his clients proved their case beyond any reasonable doubt and prayed the court to grant the reliefs sought.<\/p>\n<p>However, lawyers to the respondents \u2013 Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN) for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Wole Olanipekun (SAN) for President Bola Tinubu and Vice President, Kashim Shettma, and Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) for the All Progressives Congress (APC) \u2013 prayed the court to dismiss the petition for lacking in merit.<\/p>\n<p>Mahmoud, Olanipekun and Fagbemi argued that the petitioners failed to prove their case with relevant evidence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/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), on Tuesday, said it will deliver judgment on the petition by Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) on a date to be announced&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":106680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: We\u2019ve proved our case, Obi\u2019s lawyer tells PEPC, as Court reserves judgment - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: We\u2019ve proved our case, Obi\u2019s lawyer tells PEPC, as Court reserves judgment - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), on Tuesday, said it will deliver judgment on the petition by Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) on a date to be announced&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-02T07:24:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Peter-Obi.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"556\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"BREAKING: We\u2019ve proved our case, Obi\u2019s lawyer tells PEPC, as Court reserves judgment\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-02T07:24:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/\"},\"wordCount\":232,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Peter-Obi.jpeg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/\",\"name\":\"BREAKING: We\u2019ve proved our case, Obi\u2019s lawyer tells PEPC, as Court reserves judgment - Pointblank News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Peter-Obi.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-02T07:24:49+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Peter-Obi.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Peter-Obi.jpeg\",\"width\":700,\"height\":556},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BREAKING: We\u2019ve proved our case, Obi\u2019s lawyer tells PEPC, as Court reserves judgment\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\",\"name\":\"Pointblank News\",\"description\":\"Just the news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\",\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Our Reporter\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"BREAKING: We\u2019ve proved our case, Obi\u2019s lawyer tells PEPC, as Court reserves judgment - Pointblank News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"BREAKING: We\u2019ve proved our case, Obi\u2019s lawyer tells PEPC, as Court reserves judgment - Pointblank News","og_description":"The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), on Tuesday, said it will deliver judgment on the petition by Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) on a date to be announced&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/","og_site_name":"Pointblank News","article_published_time":"2023-08-02T07:24:49+00:00","og_image":[{"width":700,"height":556,"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Peter-Obi.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Our Reporter","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Our Reporter","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/"},"author":{"name":"Our Reporter","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"headline":"BREAKING: We\u2019ve proved our case, Obi\u2019s lawyer tells PEPC, as Court reserves judgment","datePublished":"2023-08-02T07:24:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/"},"wordCount":232,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Peter-Obi.jpeg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/","name":"BREAKING: We\u2019ve proved our case, Obi\u2019s lawyer tells PEPC, as Court reserves judgment - Pointblank News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Peter-Obi.jpeg","datePublished":"2023-08-02T07:24:49+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Peter-Obi.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Peter-Obi.jpeg","width":700,"height":556},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-weve-proved-our-case-obis-lawyer-tells-pepc-as-court-reserves-judgment\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"BREAKING: We\u2019ve proved our case, Obi\u2019s lawyer tells PEPC, as Court reserves judgment"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/","name":"Pointblank News","description":"Just the news","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c","name":"Our Reporter","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Our Reporter"},"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}