Peter Obi not a Labour Party member — Tinubu
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja that Peter Obi is not a member of the Labour Party.
Tinubu backed this up by producing an alleged register of the party for Anambra State. This was in response to the petition filed by Obi.
The president’s lawyer Wole Olanipekun (SAN) tendered before the tribunal the register along with LP’s letter, dated April 25, 2022 forwarding the membership register to the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Tinubu’s lawyers said this makes Obi unqualified to contest in the last presidential election on the platform of the Labour Party.
Obi’s lawyer Livy Uzoukwu (SAN) objected to the admission of the documents but the court admitted them and marked them as Exhibits RA17 and RA18.
Prior to this, Olanipekun called Senator Opeyemi Bamidele as star witness.
The witness, who is a practicing attorney in the United States and currently the majority leader of the Senate, in his evidence told the court that there is no record of criminal proceedings or conviction of Tinubu in the US.
After this, the defence closed their case.
On Tuesday, the tribunal admitted the Chicago State University records of Tinubu.
The defence tendered educational documents to establish Tinubu’s attendance and graduation at the American university comprising the admission letter offered the president by the institution, as well as a US visa from 2011 to 2021, among others.
