Atiku Abubakar, presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and his party have tendered a
total of 26,175 exhibits against the election of President Muhammadu Buhari at
the presidential election tribunal.
The PDP candidate had through
Livy Uzoukwu, his lawyer, tendered 5,196 exhibits before the tribunal on
Thursday while additional ones were filed on Friday.
Atiku had gone to the tribunal to
challenge Buhari’s victory at the February poll.
He is arguing that results from
the individual polling units shows he got more votes than Buhari who contested
under the All Progressives Congress (APC).
A statement from Paul Ibe, his
spokesman, said the exhibits comprise mainly result sheets from polling units,
wards and local governments in eight states namely Katsina, Kebbi, Borno,
Jigawa, Gombe, Bauchi, Kaduna and partly Kano.
Ibe gave the breakdown of the
documents as: 3,378 came from Katsina; 2,106 came from Kebbi; 3,472 from Borno;
3,162 from Jigawa; 1,912 from Gombe; 3,539 from Bauchi; 3,335 from Kaduna and
5,271 came from Kano.
Yunus Usman, counsel to INEC;
Mike Igbokwe, counsel to Buhari; and Charles Edosomwan, APC counsel, were all
said to have objected to the admissibility of the documents.
They were, however, said to have
informed the tribunal that reasons for their objections would be made at the
address stage of hearing in the petition.
Uzoukwu told the tribunal that
his team will begin to call witnesses after the documents have all been tendered.
The tribunal adjourned till
Monday, July 8, for further hearing.
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