Don Akaegbu, a lawyer and election petitions specialist located in Lagos, was quoted in the Sun article as having discussed his work as the Labour Party’s Southwest Nigerian region’s lawyer coordinator during the last election cycle. He said that he represented the party in court following the APC’s lawsuit to halt the Labour Party’s inaugural gathering and that, absenteeism within the party, he thought Peter Obi would have prevailed in the presidential contest. He pointed out that the Labour Party had neglected to supply poll workers in numerous regions, so impeding their ability to gather the requisite paperwork to challenge the election outcomes. CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
He said, “The role I played in the last election in respect of Peter Obi case was in the coordination of lawyers in the Southwest geopolitical zone. I was actually the Southwest Coordinator of Peter Obi National Lawyers (PONL). My job began when Tinubu lawyers filed an action to stop the Labour Party’s first rally which was tagged “EndSARS” Memorial. That was when my representation in court for Peter Obi actually started. However, after the election itself, I was not able to join them in Abuja as a result of other election petition cases I had in Lagos. There is no doubt, however, that Peter Obi won the February 25 presidential election. I may not be able to provide immediate empirical evidence, but I can state categorically that Peter Obi won the election by a landslide. The deficiency with the legal team of Peter Obi was not about what the lawyers did, but what the party itself did. We had many polling units across the country where the Labour Party didn’t have polling agents and everyone knows that there’s what we called Form EC8A, which contained the data of what happened in the election proper. And that can only be given to accredited party agents.” CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
