The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, tendered before the presidential Election Petition Court, yesterday, more documents as evidence to prove that the president, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu is not the valid winner of the February 25, 2023 election.
Atiku is challenging the victory of APC’s Bola Tinubu in the just concluded presidential election.
The documents presented are those Atiku Abubakar hopes can convince the five-member panel that INEC was wrong in declaring APC’s Bola Tinubu winner of the presidential election.
At today’s continuation of trial, Atiku’s counsel, Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, told the court he would like to submit more documents. “My lord I will tend to proceed from where we left off yesterday, as I will like to tender some documents. These are certified true copies of electoral documents”. He said.
He proceeded to tender to the court a couple of certified true copies of INEC EC8E from three local governments in Abia, 24 local government areas in Kaduna, and 18 out of 23 LGAs in Kogi state. Some documents were also submitted from Ogun.
Among documents tendered in evidence were printouts of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System [BVAS] accreditation data from 32 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
Others are polling unit results downloaded from the INEC results, viewing portal or IReV of Abia, Bayelsa, Kaduna, and Ogun states were also tendered in evidence.
However, the Labour Party failed to begin tendering documents at the resumed hearing Wednesday on account of illness among key members of its legal team, thereby stalling hearing of its own petition.
Peter Obi’s legal team informed the Presidential Election Petition Court that it could not begin presentation of documents due to health-related challenges in its secretariat.
Awa Kalu, a member of the Labour Party legal team, informed the Justice Haruna Tsammani-led panel that an unforeseen development had hit the Labour Party’s legal team due to the illness of one of its ‘key staff’.
Meanwhile, hearing of both the Labour Party and PDP petitions continues on Thursday June 1.
