Peter Obi Tenders Additional 136 Exhibits From Lagos, Five Other States Before Presidential Tribunal To Challenge Tinubu’s Victory
The presidential candidate of the Labour Acquire collectively, Peter Obi in the February 25 identical old elections, has tendered 136 extra shows earlier than the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Abuja, to enhance his claim that election became rigged.
SaharaReporters had reported that Obi and his celebration, LP are no longer easy the election of President Bola Tinubu, who contested the balloton the platform of the All Progressives Congress APC.
Obi came third in the election Bola Tinubu became declared winner and president-elect by the Self sustaining Nationwide Electoral Price (INEC).
In step with INEC election outcomes declaration, APC candidate, Tinubu, polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the opposition Other folks’s Democratic Acquire collectively (PDP) who polled 6,984,520 votes and Labour Acquire collectively’s Peter Obi had 6,101,533 votes to come inspire third.
Nonetheless, Obi had on Thursday tendered some shows comprising outcomes of the election from 115 Local Authorities Areas, LGAs, in Rivers, Niger, Benue, Wicked River, Osun, Ekiti.
At some stage in the resumed listening to on Friday, Obi through his team of attorneys tendered extra 136 shows which had been admitted in evidence by the Justice Haruna Tsammani-led 5-member panel. The shows made from outcomes of the presidential election from six states of the federation.
In step with Vanguard anecdote, the states the court docket admitted their presidential election outcomes contained in Forms EC8A, had been; Adamawa, Bayelsa, Oyo, Edo, Lagos and Akwa Ibom.
Obi, through his team of attorneys told the court docket that the implications he tendered in evidence, had been certified true copies he bought from the Self sustaining Nationwide Electoral Price, INEC.
The reported that at the resumed proceedings on Friday, the petitioners, bought permission of the court docket to put up extra outcomes from six LGAs in Rivers Screech, which had been admitted and marked as Reveals PB 16 to PB 21.
Nonetheless, INEC, opposed the admissibility of the additional outcomes from Rivers Screech, which it stated had been “irregular” to it.
Mr. Kemi Pinhero, SAN, who led INEC’s appropriate team, told the court docket that the Price would come explanation why it opposed the admissibility of the implications, in its final written address.
Likewise, counsel that represented President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima, Chief Akin Olujinmi, SAN, besides to that of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, challenged the admittance of the implications in evidence.
The respondents stated they’d equally reserve their reasons for objecting to the admissibility of the election outcomes, of their final written address.
Thereafter, Obi and the LP, tendered in evidence earlier than the court docket, extra result from Bida LGA in Niger Screech, which became admitted as Easy PE 24.
Whereas the court docket admitted outcomes from 21 LGAs in Adamawa protest and marked them as Reveals PH 1 to PH 21, it moreover admitted outcomes of the presidential election from 8 LGAs in Bayelsa protest and marked them as Reveals PJ1 to PJ 8.
Also tendered, had been outcomes from 31 LGAs in Oyo, which the court docket admitted as Reveals PK 1 – PK 31, whereas outcomes from 18 LGAs in Edo protest had been marked as Reveals PL1- PL 18.
The petitioners extra tendered outcomes of the presidential election from 20 LGAs in Lagos protest which had been admitted as Reveals PM 1 – PM 20, with outcomes from 31 LGAs in Akwa Ibom protest, authorized in evidence as Reveals PN 1 – PN 31.
SaharaReporters had reported that whereas Peter Obi and his celebration won the presidential election in Lagos Screech, he became no longer easy the implications.
He had avowed in his petition that there became massive suppression of votes in the protest insisting that electorates who would indulge in voted for him, had been brazenly confused or intimidated.
In the meantime, by consensus of all of the events, the Justice Tsammani-led panel vacated its initial decision to continue the listening to on Saturday.
Even supposing lead counsel for the petitioners, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu, SAN, stated his team became ready to look earlier than the court docket on Saturday, nonetheless, counsel for all of the respondents took turns to beg the court docket to shift extra listening to of the case till subsequent Monday, a requirement the panel acceded to.
