Veteran singer and social activist, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy has vowed to walk naked on the street if the Labour Party candidate in the February 25 presidential election, Peter Obi, emerges victorious at the election petitions tribunal.
The Independent National Electoral Commission announced Bola Tinubu as the winner of the election and he was subsequently sworn-in as the President.
The Labour Party and its candidate thereafter approached the court to challenge the victory of Tinubu.
Charly Boy who took to his Twitter handle on Wednesday, said he would strip himself to jubilate if the tribunal announces Obi’s victory.
He wrote, “When Tribunal announce say Peter Obi don win even before the case reach Supreme Court, wetin you go do dat day?
“For me, I go naked waka from one end of Bodillon to Falomo [sic].
Obi has told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) how the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), deliberately subverted the will of a majority of Nigerians by dishonestly manipulating the 25th of February presidential election in favour of President Bola Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress (APC).
In their final written address, the petitioners argued that the Commission failed to provide evidence in court and prove ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ how it came to the conclusion that APC and Tinubu won.
It, therefore, prayed the court not to close its eyes to constitutional violations that characterised the disputed election but to act in the interest of justice by declaring the purported return of Tinubu and APC as winners invalid and a nullity.
In their joint final address filed on July 23 a copy of which was obtained by Africa Today News, New York the petitioners accused INEC of failing to comply with the requirement of the law by refusing to provide them with certified copies of the ‘top copies (Electoral operations’ copies’) of the Forms EC8A in the polling unit under paragraph 39 of the regulations and guidelines.
Obi equally urged the court to hold that going by the unchallenged evidence he presented that he won in 13 States including Rivers, Benue and the FCT, he was winner of the election.
While insisting that the election was manipulated in favour of President Tinubu, the petitioners submitted that INEC mischievously downloaded 18,088 blurred polling units results comprising blank A4 papers and photographs of unknown persons in place of the presidential results, which were duly certified by the Commission and handed over to them.
The said blurred copies of the polling unit results were obtained from 168 local government areas in 14 states of the federation including Adamawa; Ogun, Ekiti; Rivers; Akwa Ibom; Niger; Edo; Bauchi; Bayelsa; Gombe; Kaduna; Benue; Cross Rivers and Lagos respectively.