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By John Alechenu, Abuja

The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25, 2023 election and first petitioner in the ongoing case at the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, Peter Obi, has in his response to the legal team of President Bola Tinubu, declared that anarchy only reigns where the rule of law is trampled upon.

Obi said this through his legal team in response to the written address by Tinubu’s lawyers who had argued that an interpretation of the law requiring 25 percent of the total lawful votes cast 24 states and the Federal Capital Territory could lead to anarchy.

According to Obi’s media team, in a release on Friday, the LP candidate through his legal team has given a principled response to the threat of Anarchy from the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the 2nd and 3rd Respondents in the petition, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kashim Shetimma, “that if the Court interprets the Electoral Act section 134 against them it might lead to breakdown of law and order.”

The release read in part, “Recall that Tinubu’s legal team, led by Wole Olanipekun, had in their final address to the court threatened that, “Any other interpretation different from theirs will lead to absurdity, chaos, anarchy and alteration of the very intention of the legislature.”

However, “Peter Obi’s lawyers led by Dr Livy Uzoukwu and Onyechi Ikpeazu disagreed saying instead that what will lead to anarchy is where the rule of law is trampled upon or truncated, that in such situations anarchy reigns supreme!

According to Obi, “A sentence in the 2nd-3rd Respondents’ address alarmed the Petitioners and millions of Nigerians. The 2nd-3rd Respondents went too low and abandoned discretion when they claimed as follows: “Our submission is that the Petitioners are inviting anarchy by their ventilation of this issue of non-transmission of results electronically, by INEC.”

“Obi’s legal team noted that they found Tinubu’s outburst as “a cheap, misguided, and destructive blackmail clearly intended to target the country’s judicialism and constitutionalism. It also aims at cannibalizing our democracy.

“The legal team also noted that the careless and absurd statements of the 2nd and 3rd Respondents intend to raise the issue of insecurity if the Petitioners were to emulate the bad example of the 2nd-3rd Respondents but remarked that such will never happen because of the petitioner’s discipline and peaceful disposition and believe in the rule of law.

“Still underscoring the pointlessness and the supererogatory of the Respondent’s threat, Obi’s legal team wondered, ‘When has it become offensive for Petitioners to canvass a ground prescribed for the challenge of an election in section 134(1)(b) of the Electoral Act 2022?

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/07/where-rule-of-law-is-trampled-upon-anarchy-reigns-supreme-obi-replies-tinubu/amp/

People threatening anarchy and doom don't know Peter Obi is the one holding his ers back.

If Obi decides to post a simple tweet like: "Youths, it's time to #TakebackNigeria" , that is when corn munchers will know who the real president is.

Very good reply his excellency.

Just that you are too pure to issues with the drug lord. No need fighting a pig lest you become dirty also. I love you Peter Obi and will always do. May Almighty God bless you for the rare hope you have betowed upon Nigerians.

Thank you sir

I don't even understand where we are headed to as a country with all these

obi is a boy

The way Obi will lose in the court ehn

Mumu man no wonder UK immigrations are looking for you

fuckJones:
obi is a boy

That boy is damn good

UnknownGunMan:
People threatening anarchy and doom don't know Peter Obi is the one holding his ers back.

If Obi decides to post a simple tweet like: "Youths, it's time to #TakebackNigeria" , that is when corn munchers will know who the real president is.

we challenge u all to try that rubbish

It’s u igbos attitude that anytime u lose u will want to scatter everything, just try any rubbish like that endsars massacre hoax


U keep threatening people with peter obi will do this n that, we dare him to do it first

No b by mouth

Small time u start saying peter obi is this n that, let him try it first

Is tinibu saying he is bigger than the nigerian constitution or the laws of nigeria should all be set aside because of him?

Sharpsharp00123:
we challenge u all to try that rubbish

It’s u igbos attitude that anytime u lose u will want to scatter everything, just try any rubbish like that endsars massacre hoax

what about Hausa and other tribes?
You are really a coward.
Someone will slap you and the next person you mention is Igbo

Igwe9:

what about Hausa and other tribes?
You are really a coward.
Someone will slap you and the next person you mention is Igbo

we know u igbos are behind the obi mumu madness

Tinubu is our president because majority no wise at all

UnknownGunMan:
People threatening anarchy and doom don't know Peter Obi is the one holding his ers back.

If Obi decides to post a simple tweet like: "Youths, it's time to #TakebackNigeria" , that is when corn munchers will know who the real president is.

It can only be in ibo land not south west nor north.

Having read LPs response, nothing will make Tinubu not to return the stolen mandate

CloudWalker:

It can only be in ibo land not south west nor north.

God bless u

Igbos are presenting their Biafra plan B as a Nigerian project but we are wiser n we know better

Now he knows there is such a thing as rule of law.

His lawless istration that saw to Anambra being the state with the most reckless police force that he ordered to arbitrarily arrest and execute his flimsy judgement using the notorious Akwuzu SARS that saw to dozens of young men killed and dumped in the river. How about the uncountable numbers murdered by James Nwafor who he covered for ?

Moferere:
The way Obi will lose in the court ehn

I would be suprised if he doesn't get a fine..

The way you will suffer this hardship ehn ...

Moferere:
The way Obi will lose in the court ehn

Igwe9:

Illiterate beggar like you.

Don't mind the idiot.

UnknownGunMan:
People threatening anarchy and doom don't know Peter Obi is the one holding his ers back.

If Obi decides to post a simple tweet like: "Youths, it's time to #TakebackNigeria" , that is when corn munchers will know who the real president is.

u wan die

Akwamkpuruamu:
Having read LPs response, nothing will make Tinubu not to return the stolen mandate

yarimo:
Mumu man no wonder UK immigrations are looking for you

Na Agbado full your m€dulla oblong@a.

fuckJones:
obi is a boy

Any boy capable of impregnating you and your sister sisters is no longer a boy 👦

Sharpsharp00123:
mugu

I am a certified engineer n besides I don beg u for money before or na Igbo dey feed me cos na Igbo dey feed d whole world

Ipob miscreant like u

Which engineer you be?

Come on fem dia, you are a frustr@ed soul on nairaland and such person can't be a comfortable person in reality.

Sharpsharp00123:
we challenge u all to try that rubbish

It’s u igbos attitude that anytime u lose u will want to scatter everything, just try any rubbish like that endsars massacre hoax

Like you scattered everything after june 12 abi.

Sharpsharp00123:
mugu

I am a certified engineer n besides I don beg u for money before or na Igbo dey feed me cos na Igbo dey feed d whole world

Ipob miscreant like u

Engineers don't reason like you.
Engineers don't have time for mushroom tribal chants.
You are nothing but an online miscreant. Go get a life

Sharpsharp00123:
we challenge u all to try that rubbish

It’s u igbos attitude that anytime u lose u will want to scatter everything, just try any rubbish like that endsars massacre hoax

Please stop this chest beating

No one, I repeat, no one got monopoly of violence

The Igbos got absolutely nothing to do with Endsars.

Or what has Peter obi, Labour party got to do with Endsars

Were the Igbos the one who invaded the Obas palace and took away his staff of office during the Endsars protest