“The Constitution says a candidate should be a member of a political party and be sponsored by that political party. It does not state the timeframe for joining the party. The Electoral Act requires parties to submit their membership register 30 days before primaries.
“The Act doesn’t bar admission of new members after submission of the register to the Commission.”
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Lawyers of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the just concluded 2023 presidential election, Bola Ahmed Tinubu had responded to the petition of the Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi challenging Tinubu’s declaration as President-elect by the Independent National electoral commission INEC.
According to sources, one of the grounds is that Mr Peter Obi is not qualified to contest for the presidential election based on the following reasons:
1- Peter Obi was successfully cleared to Contest for PDP Presidential Primary and Also received his Certificate of Clearance on 30 April 2022.
2- Peter Gregory Obi withdrew from PDP primaries on May 12th, 2022, less than a week to Labour Party’s presidential election.
3. According to Section 77 of the Electoral Act 2022 as amended, “each party is required to maintain a membership register in hard and soft copy and to make such register available to the Commission not later than 30 days before the date fixed for primaries, congresses and conventions”.
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