Obi's case against Tinubu finally over, tribunal expected to set judgement date

<h2>The Presidential Election Petition Court on Tuesday reserved judgment in a petition filed by Peter Obi and Labour Party (LP) challenging the election of President Bola Tinubu into power.</h2>, <p>The five-member panel is expected to communicate a date of judgement to affected parties.</p>, <span>L-R: Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi; Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), Dan Nwanyanwu; and All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu Twitter/@FSyusuf</span>, <p>Obi and LP are petitioners in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023 challenging the election which brought President Bola Tinubu into power</p>, <p>Respondents are the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Tinubu, Vice-President Kashim Shettima and All Progressives Congress (APC).</p>, <p>The five-member panel presided over by Justice Haruna Tsammani reserved judgment to a date that will be communicated to parties after parties adopted their final written addresses.</p>, <p>The News Agency of Nigeria reports that following the closing of the cases of the respondents on July 5, time was given to parties to file their written addresses.</p>, <p>Adopting their final written addresses filed on July 14, Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN), lead counsel for INEC, urged the court to uphold their objections and take the petition as lacking in merit and should be dismissed. He said there are five issues listed but he would speak on two.</p>, <p>One of them, according to Mahmoud, was the non-compliance and the conduct of the election conducted by INEC. According to him, these revolve around the use of technology and the petitioners totally misunderstood what was used, that is the Bimodal Voters Accredited System (BVAS) and IreV portal.</p>, <p>He argued that the evidence before the court showed clearly that the first respondent made sure technology was deployed for election.</p>, <p>The two points of disagreement he said were the contravention in the minds of the petitioners that electronic collation of the results manually system was