PEPC: Obi, LP tender results from 17 more states against Tinubu
By Edith Nwapi and Wandoo Sombo
Labour Occasion and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi on Tuesday tendered results from 17 more states of their petition against the victory of President Bola Tinubu within the Presidential Election Petition, PEPC.
The paperwork were admitted as reveals despite opposition by the lawyers to Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress, APC and the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Commission, INEC.
Obi and LP tendered the reveals known as Kinds EC8B.
Obi’s and the LP’s petition is marked as CA/PEPC/03/2023 and was filed against Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), his deputy, Alhaji Kashim Shettima and INEC, the electoral umpire.
At the resumed listening to of the petition, Obi and his get collectively, by a counsel in his appropriate group, Mr Ben Anichebe (SAN) tendered the Kinds EC8B from the 17 states they were contesting.
The states are Adamawa with results from 21 Local Authorities Areas (LGAs); Bayelsa (eight LGAs); Benue (23 LGAs); Kogi (21 LGAs); Nasarawa Explain (11 LGAs) and Niger (25 LGAs).
Others are Ondo Explain (18 LGAs); Sokoto Explain (21 LGAs); Delta (25 LGAs); Ekiti (11 LGAs); Imo (25 LGAs); Kaduna Explain (21 LGAs).
The relaxation are Oyo Explain (27 LGAs); Immoral River (18 LGAs), Edo (15 LGAs); Akwa Ibom (31 LGAs) and Lagos Explain (20 LGAs).
Counsel representing the respondents all objected to the tendering of the Kinds EC8Bs by the petitioners.
They are Mr Kemi Pinhero (SAN), representing INEC, Mr Wole Olanipakun (SAN), representing Tinubu and Alhaji Shettima, and Mr Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) representing the APC.
They suggested the court docket that they’d reserve reasons for his or her objection to the tendering of the categories until their final addresses.
The court docket, on the opposite hand, admitted the total paperwork tendered by the petitioners as their time table of paperwork and marked them as reveals.
The five-man panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani adjourned extra listening to of the petition to Wednesday. (NAN) (www.nannews.ng)
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