The presidential election
petition tribunal has ordered Mahmood Yakubu, national chairman of the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to produce some documents
requested by the petitioners.
The five-member panel of judges
led by Mohammed Garba gave Yakubu up till 12pm on Thursday.
The panel also gave the same
order to the Zamfara resident electoral commissioner (REC) to produce results
sheets of all the polling units in the state for the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP).
The ruling was a sequel to an
application by Chris Uche, PDP counsel, on Wednesday.
Uche had told the tribunal that
the INEC chairman and REC have failed to comply with subpoenas issued by the
court.
“Permit me to bring to your
attention some preliminary issues. The subpoena dated 9th July on INEC chairman
which we paid for has not been released to us,” he said.
“On the same 9th July another
subpoena was on the REC Zamfara and we applied for all the EC8As. We paid for
them and they refused to release them to us.”
The PDP counsel then asked the
tribunal to assist them to get the documents.
While delivering the ruling, the
panel noted that it was impossible for the INEC chairman and REC to produce the
documents on the day they were served the subpoenas.
“We note that the INEC chairman
and REC were asked to produce documents on the day they were served, that is
impossible,” Garba held.
“They have been directed to
produce documents in the subpoenas by 12pm tomorrow.”
The petitioners are seeking to
tender these documents as evidence.
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