{"id":748,"date":"2023-11-06T15:03:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/tinubu-supreme-court-willfully-condoned-constitutional-breaches-peter-obi-alleges\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T15:03:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:03:15","slug":"tinubu-supreme-court-willfully-condoned-constitutional-breaches-peter-obi-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/tinubu-supreme-court-willfully-condoned-constitutional-breaches-peter-obi-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu: Supreme Court willfully condoned constitutional breaches  \u2013 Peter Obi alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the just concluded February 25 presidential election, Mr Peter Obi has officially reacted to the recent Supreme Court judgement, which dismissed his petition against the victory of President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>Obi claimed the Apex Court willfully condoned breaches of the constitution, with regards to established qualifications and prerequisites for candidates in presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to the former Anambra State governor, the Supreme Court did not only exhibit a disturbing aversion to public opinion, it abandoned its responsibility as the court of law and policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHighly permit me to make some few comments on the recent judgement of the Supreme Court, the highest court in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs someone who has benefited from the ruling of the Supreme Court on an electoral matter, after a period of deep and sober reflection, I have decided to personally and formally react to the recent judgement as most Nigerians have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cause we are confronted with are issues of national interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLegal issues aside, the Supreme Court exhibited a disturbing aversion to public opinion, just as they abandoned its responsibility as the court of law and policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s therefore with great despair that I observed that the decision of the court contradicts the overwhelming evidence of election rigging, false claim of technical glitch, substantial non-compliance to the rules set by INEC for itself, as well as a matter of perjury, identify theft and forgery that has been brought to life in the cause of election matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are hefty allegations that should not have been treated with levity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Supreme Court judgement willfully condoned breaches of the constitution relative to established qualifications and prerequisites for candidates in presidential elections,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu: Supreme Court willfully condoned constitutional breaches  \u2013 Peter Obi alleges<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the just concluded February 25 presidential election, Mr Peter Obi has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614,15,990,466],"tags":[8,1172,1171,1174,1173,135,180,794,349,1169,26,1170],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court","category-news","category-peter-obi","category-tinubu","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-alleges","tag-breaches","tag-condoned","tag-constitutional","tag-court","tag-news","tag-obi","tag-peter","tag-supreme","tag-tinubu","tag-willfully"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - 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