It also challenged the court’s jurisdiction to hear the petition on the grounds that it is, among others, incompetent.
Among APC’s grounds for challenging the competence of the petition are that Obi was not a valid member of the Labor Party at the time of the election.
The APC argued that he was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party until May 24, 2022, when he was screened as the party’s presidential aspirant in April 2023.
It added Obi purportedly resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party on 24th May 2022 to purportedly join the Labor Party on 27th, May 2022.
The Labor Party conducted its presidential primary on 30th May 2022, which produced Obi as its candidate, which time contravened Section seventy seven subsection three of the Electoral Act for him to contest the primary election as a member of the LP.
