2023: Pro-Tinubu group urges INEC to disqualify Obi, Datti over alleged Diaspora funding

* Threaten lawsuit to stop LP’s candidates from being on the ballot

A group known as Tinubu-Shettima Connect has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to disqualify the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, and his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, from the 2023 presidential election.

Besides, the group also threatened to commence legal action, intending to join Peter Obi, his running mate and INEC, to stop the Labour Party from participating in the 2023 presidential election for engaging in activities that contravene the Electoral Act 2022.

Convener of the group, Adebanjo Moyosore, argued through a statement that it is not only illegal to raise campaign funds from abroad through unknown sources or unidentified groups, but there is also dire consequences and implications for such act.

The group’s position comes on the heels of the inauguration of an 11-man Diaspora Committee to organise fund-raising activities, among others, by the National Chairman of Labour Party, Barr Julius Abure, at the National headquarters of the party in Abuja.

The Inauguration also came shortly after the party’s Diaspora support groups pledged to crowdfund $150million, N100billion for the Obi-Datti campaign.

Moyosore described the inauguration of a Diaspora committee by the leadership of Labour Party to gather campaign funds from Nigerians in the Diaspora for Obi’s presidential campaign as both illegal and criminal.

He, therefore, urged INEC to disqualify the duo.

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