Peter Obi, the presidential candidate for the Labour Party (LP), has submitted his petition to contest Bola Tinubu’s victory in the 25 February election on behalf of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

At around midnight on Tuesday, Mr. Obi, who finished third in the race, submitted his appeal at the Presidential race appeal Court in Abuja challenging the results of the vote.

He said that a number of irregularities occurred during the election, including Mr. Tinubu and his running companion Kashim Shettima not being eligible to run for office.

Additionally, he claimed Mr. Tinubu was unable to get a majority of the legal votes cast in the election, just as he was unable to win one-fourth of the legal votes cast in the Federal Capital.

Additionally, he claimed that the election was conducted in material non-compliance with the law.

Because he believed he received the majority of valid votes, the Labour Party candidate asked the court to either declare him the president-elect or declare the election invalid and order a new election.

There are two major prayers and three variant prayers in the petition, for a total of five prayers.

The petition was submitted jointly by Mr. Obi and the Labour Party, his party.

The co-petitioners named the APC, Mr. Tinubu, Kashim Shettima, the vice-president-elect, and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as defendants in their lawsuit.

The petitioners submitted their case on Tuesday, beating the 21-day window that started to run on March 1 after INEC announced the election’s winner.

Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came in second, according to INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu, who made the announcement of the final results early on March 1 in Abuja.

In the election, Atiku received 6,984,520 votes overall, according to the results released by INEC.

With a total of 6,101,533 votes, Mr. Obi of the Labour Party finished second to Atiku, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP took fourth place with 1,496,687 votes.

With a total of 6,101,533 votes, Mr. Obi of the Labour Party finished second to Atiku, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP took fourth place with 1,496,687 votes.

Livy Uzoukwu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, is the head of Mr. Obi’s legal team, which on Tuesday filed the case contesting the results of the election. (SAN).

When Atiku attempted to overturn President Muhammadu Buhari’s election in 2019, Mr. Uzoukwu served as the head of his legal team.