The camp of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has lambasted the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, for trying to present the $460,000 forfeiture case as one relating to tax evasion and not drug charges. SaharaReporters had reported how court papers from the US linked Tinubu to a drug trafficking case and his eventual forfeiture of the sum of $460,000 to the US government.
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Mr. Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, with his party, last week, filed a petition at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja, asking it to declare him as the rightful winner of the February 25 presidential poll.
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, on Tuesday filed his petition to challenge the victory of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 25 February election. The Independent National Electoral Commission had announced Tinubu as the winner of the election after which it declared him ‘President-elect’. In his petition before the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja, Obi alleged that the election was characterised by various irregularities including the non-qualification of the APC candidate.