Election: Uzoukwu, Kalu, Ikpeazu, and other SANs support defend  Peter Obi

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory is being contested by Peter Obi’s legal team, which consists of twelve attorneys.

Dr. Livy Uzoukwu, Chief Awa Kalu, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, P.I.N. Ikwueto, and Chief Ben Anyachebe are the Senior Advocates of Nigeria, or SANs, in order of seniority.

S.T. Hon, Arthur Obi Okafor, Ik Ezechukwu, J.S. Okutepa, Dr. Mrs. Valerie Azinge, Emeka Okpoko, and Alex Ejesieme are some of the others.

These Senior Attorneys on the team are not all of them. Additional people are still signing up, a reliable insider told Obasanjonews24.

The Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) application will be decided upon by the Court of Appeal in Abuja on Wednesday.

The Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, or BVAS, will be modified by INEC in order to hold the February 25 presidential election in 2023.

The legal team representing the Labour Party’s presidential candidate filed a motion on Tuesday to prevent INEC from tampering with the evidence in a case that will be heard by the Presidential Election Tribunal.

According to the attorneys, the information on the BVAS comprises the core of Obi’s argument on INEC’s “illegal manipulation” of the February 25 election results and procedures.

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They informed the court that before the aforementioned data transfer, access to INEC systems for forensic experts’ inspection was denied.

Prior to the March 11 gubernatorial and state legislature elections, the umpire stated that it will move the data on the BVAS to a backup server.

A Court of Appeal panel made up of three people and led by Judge Joseph Ikyegh is hearing the case.

Last Wednesday, the All Progressives Congress, the party in power, announced that Tinubu was the winner.

All three of the major opposition parties, the Labour Party (LP), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), have disputed the results.

On February 28, the LP and PDP that Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the head of INEC, resign and the poll be called off.