Court has rejected Peter Obi and the Labour Party’s request for more information from INEC.
NewsOnline reports that the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has struck out two applications filed by Peter Obi and his party, the Labour Party (LP).
This online newspaper understands that Peter Obi and the LP had by one of the motions filed on May 22 sought the court’s leave to issue and deliver interrogatories on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
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They had intended, by the interrogatories, to obtain more information from INEC.
In the second, filed on June 2, the petitioners sought the court’s permission to have the first application heard outside the pre-hearing session.
In a ruling on Saturday, the court’s five-member panel was unanimous that the two applications were without, having been filed outside the time allowed by law, a development which denied the court the jurisdiction to hear them.
The Presiding Justice (PJ), Justice Haruna Tsammani noted that the petitioners’ lawyers were not diligent in their conduct which informed why they did not file the applications within the time allowed.
Justice Tsammani held that the petitioners did not establish any circumstance of extreme urgency that would have made the court to exercise discretion in their favour.
Details shortly…
