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Wole Olanipekun, counsel to President Bola Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima, has responded to the final written address filed by the counsels of Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP).

Obi, the standard bearer of the LP, is challenging the victory of Tinubu in the February 25 presidential poll.

Olanipekun, in a response filed on Friday before the presidential election petition tribunal, asked the court to dismiss Obi and LP’s petition and their final written address.

The petitioners had said Tinubu was not eligible to run for the office of president due to the forfeiture of $460,000 in the US and his failure to secure 25 percent of votes cast in the federal capital territory (FCT).

TINUBU’S LAWYERS RESPOND TO OBI’S FINAL WRITTEN ADDRESS

In a 14-page response, Tinubu’s lawyers argued that Obi and LP “abandoned” their petition in their final written address.

They asked the court to dismiss their arguments over the “clear manifestation and display of abandonment of the entire petition”.

“Order 22 Rule 5 of the Federal High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2019, which is applicable to the proceedings mandates that “a written address shall…contain…(c) the issues arising from the evidence for determination,” Tinubu lawyers said.

“From this simple grammatical provision of the rules, it is clear that the petitioners have not formulated any issue for determination capable of being considered or countenanced by this honourable court; and the court can also not consider their address without issues for determination being presented by them.

“Arising from the foregoing, this honourable court is urged, as respondents have done in their final address, to dismiss the petition, not only for the reasons and submissions contained in that address, but also for the clear manifestation and display of abandonment of the entire petition.”

‘FORFEITURE NOT CONVICTION-BASED’
Tinubu’s lawyers also argued that the forfeiture made by the president in the US did not arise from a conviction.

“That Non-Conviction Based Forfeiture (NCBF) of the type referenced in Exhibit P5 [is] typically the outcome of an in rem action and does not involve trial or conviction for an offence,” the lawyers argued.

The president’s lawyers said Obi and LP did not address the “purported failure of INEC to supply them Form ECSAS in several polling units” and the allegations of “mutilations, cancellations and outright swapping of votes”.

“Throughout their address, this sweeping statement has not been activated by pointing to any specific Form ECSA, which is caught by their alleged vices, or which contains any figure/votes swapped in favour of the 2nd and 4th respondents, against the petitioners; what the figures are, how the said figures have affected their votes, and how the said conjectured figures have aided the votes of the respondents,” the lawyers said.

“With respect, the entire address, like the petition itself, is a fiction.”

https://www.thecable.ng/tinubu-obi-lp-petition-like-fiction-they-abandoned-it-in-final-written-address/amp

The honourable SANs should stop making a mess of the legal profession.

25% in Abuja is not fiction.
Certificate forgery is not fiction.
Forfeiture for drugs and money laundering is not a fiction.
INEC posting different figures for Rivers State in IREV and announcing different winners and results is not fiction.

Peter Obi got more votes from one LGA of Borno State than what INEC recorded for the final State result is not fiction.

The world is watching. You can't win on technicalities any longer when the stakes are high.

Tinubu is a bastard

A man who’s whole life and existence is fiction and mirage is accusing another man of fiction

Tinubu from your Family barground, educational barground, source of wealth, health status, Chicago university certificate, drug history and cocaine cartel leader, your age, your real name all are lies

Thunder fire you

Bloody brown teeth thief

The only fiction we have right now is the unconstitutional being who is parading himself as president.

His response his just laughable.

Peter Obi told Nigerians that he won the election and he will prove it with evidence in court. The court case is about to end and we’ve not seen a single evidence of how Peter Obi won the election conducted on February 25th 2023. He couldn’t even present to the court in his final address how he won the election. So, what’s the lie about retrieving a stolen mandate all about when he never won the election?

Obi’s petition has now been reduced to calling for the disqualification of the actual winner and then conducting another election between him and Atiku to determine the actual winner. He has completely abandoned any claim to victory.

Sadly for him, Tinubu will not be disqualified on any ground as there is absolutely no reason to disqualify him. The so called forfeiture is in relation to a civil matter that has no criminal conviction. The US government clearly stated in a letter tendered in court that Tinubu was never convicted and that’s the legal position of the forfeiture.

So, even in the unlikely event of the court ordering a second ballot on the basis of 25% in FCT, it will still be between Tinubu and Atiku. Of course, this will not happen as section 299 clearly stated that FCT should be treated like any other state in all matters.

Oga swallow ur pride return the stolen mandate, we don't want you, shikina

Ashez:
Oga swallow ur pride return the stolen mandate, we don't want you, shikina

Stolen Mandate from Obi or Atiku?

chokekachy:


https://www.thecable.ng/tinubu-obi-lp-petition-like-fiction-they-abandoned-it-in-final-written-address/amp

Nlfpmod Mynd44

They are still coming o. They will still write another address on social media. Check my signature for free stuffs!

Olanipekun is just talking rubbish

LP really shocked them. Countered every nonsense point they put out. LP lawyers are not playing.

This news will favor you and your family + village people too



The president of Nigerian trekkers association has spoken

Obi is a nice man, he can never become the president of Nigeria at least not in the next 8 years

Hmm

Yes, a fiction and a complete joke!

Gazelle gragra, Balablu bhlu bhlu bulaba

PEPT declare your winner, let's move to Supreme court so that we can all rest

Dear Future husband, if u have slept with someone's wife, they will also sleep with me 😂

You will lose your seat

Let all party bring out their total result number figures from their situation room

This will let ordinary Nigerians know the true winners

“Order 22 Rule 5 of the Federal High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2019, which is applicable to the proceedings mandates that “a written address shall…contain…(c) the issues arising from the evidence for determination,”

Technicality SAN, sorry sir, the tribunal won't fall for your antics anymore.
The judges said earlier the tribunal will consider all petitions on their merit and not on technicality.
Everything in Obi's petition was captured in his final written address.

Oh, if you say so.

Tinubu days are numbered

Using the head of headless mob anyhow..

See his oblong head like fiction

Yh

I dont hear them wail on Atiku.

But you see them wailing, gnashing their teeth, screaming, lamenting and barking like rabid BA.T over obi!

once they hear OBI! THE BA.T AND ITS BAT.stards will fly out of their coven and begin to wail!


TRULY THERE IS NO REST, NO PEACE OF MIND FOR THE WICKED THIEF AND THEIR GANG THAT STRUCK BY NIGHT!

By the time,the dust settles down and Tinubu returns the stolen mandate,let whoever ascends the throne not forget to ask Yakobo how Tinubu managed to become the president of Nigeria

People with brains know this.

You came 3rd, you file an election petition and not once did you even try to show how you came 1st. Instead you are trying to disqualify the winner based on issues that are non starters.

This is what the judiciary has been reduced to. Acclaimed SANs disgracing the entire profession because of dirty politicians, it's indeed a pity we ca only hope for a hand that can come and sanitise our institutions.