The Labour Party (LP) said it has 10 days left to file election petitions at the tribunal against the declaration of the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Speaking shortly after meeting with the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, alongside other members of the LP legal team, Dr Livy Uzoukwu said that the team came to INEC because they had not received any electoral stocks for inspection on behalf of their clients, and especially that the election petition is time sensitive.

“We have 21 days to file a petition on behalf of our clients. Out of those 21days we probably have about 10 days to go and up till now we have not received any documents. We have written to INEC requesting for the document apart from that.

“The Court of Appeal made an order on March 3, to INEC to release those documents to us but we haven’t received any hence we requested a meeting with the chairman of the commission.

Following an invitation for a noon meeting INEC, yesterday, the Labour Party (LP) had suspended its plan for a nationwide protest over the refusal of the electoral body to inspect materials used for the February 25, 2023 presidential polls.

The Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi had rejected the outcome of the poll won by the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed over alleged manipulations by the electoral umpire. [Tribune]