Politics
PEPC: Obi Tenders INEC Vital Documents From 32 States Against Tinubu
As the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi and his party continued their petition against President Bola Tinubu’s election on Wednesday, the petitioners tendered vital documents from INEC before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja.
The petitioners also called additional three witnesses to testify against Tinubu.
At the resumed hearing of the petition numbered, CA/PEPC/03/2023, lead counsel to the petitioners, Dr Livy Uzoukwu (SAN) called the 8th witness of the petitioners, Dr Chubuike Ugwuoke, a cyber security expert, who adopted his statement on oath deposed to on June 21 as his evidence in the matter.
Documents tendered as evidence through the witness include data and a press statement by INEC on alleged plot to abandon electronic transmission of polling unit results to its portal.
The respondents, INEC, Tinubu, Kashim Shettima and the APC had earlier objected to the adoption of the witness statement on oath as well as the admissibility of the other document and promised to give their reasons at the final address stage.
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The court, however, admitted the documents and marked them as exhibits and held that cross-examination of the witness by the respondents will be done on Thursday.
Onoja Oloko Sunday and Kefas Iya who are the 9th and 10th witnesses for the petitioners adopted their witness statements on oath. They both said the election process went on well until the electronic transmission of the polling units’ election results to INEC viewing portal when the Biomodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) machine failed.
After the evidence of the witnesses, the petitioners’ counsel, Peter Afoba (SAN) tendered Certified True Copies (CTCs) of a list of the total number of registered voters and Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) for 32 states of the Federation, Certificate of compliance in respect of Edo, which only INEC did not object to its admissibility but the rest respondents urged the court not to admit it and promised to adduce their reasons at the final address stage.
Other documents tendered by the petitioners on Wednesday include CTCs of supplementary I-ReV reports in respect of three local government areas of Benue state, supplementary I-ReV reports for two local government areas of Cross River state, I-ReV reports in respect of 13 Local government areas of Lagos state and CTCs of supplementary I-Rev report for one local government area of Gombe.
At the end of the day’s proceedings, the court adjourned till Thursday, July 22 by 2 pm for further hearing.
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