By Akubulu Ngozi
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT, today suspended the petition of the Labour Party Presidential Election Candidate, Peter Obi, against the President, Bola Tinubu to June 1st.
This is coming after the Counsel for the Petitioners, Awa Kalu, SAN, reportedly told the court that two key members of Obi’s team would not be attending the proceedings owing to a sudden illness.
As such, the Counsel persuaded the court to adjourn further proceedings on the case on the outcome of February 25th Presidential Election through which Tinubu emerged as president, adding that, their absence has affected earlier plans to tender vital documents before the court.
In his words, “My lords, our plan for today’s proceedings was to start with the presentation of our documents, but unfortunately, we had some unexpected development.
The unexpected development concerns the sudden illness of two of our key staff, for which reason I am constrained to ask for an adjournment till tomorrow.”