Hearing in the election petition of the Labour Party and its
presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, was stalled at the Presidential Election
Petition Court (PEPC) on Wednesday in Abuja.
At the resumed hearing, counsel to the petitioners, Prof.
Awa Kalu, SAN, told the court that he was constrained to ask for an adjournment
due to unforeseen circumstances.
“My lords, our plan was to continue our case, but we had an
unexpected development at the secretariat.
“The unexpected development has to do with the Illness of
two of our key staff members for which reason I am constrained to pray for an
adjournment until tomorrow,” he said.
When the presiding judge, Justice Haruna Tsammani, asked for
the response of Mr Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN, counsel to the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC), he said he was not opposing the application.
“My lords I thought learned counsel would have given us
heads up on this, however, in the circumstance, I am constrained not to object
and this will count as a day out of their three weeks,” Mahmoud said.
Counsel to the All Progressives Congress, Mr Lateef Fagbemi,
SAN, and that of President Bola Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima also
did not object to the application.
Justice Tsammani then adjourned the matter until Thursday,
saying today would be counted as a day within the petitioners’ three weeks.
Speaking to newsmen, Kalu said that the setback would not
affect his client’s case.
He said that his team would use the remaining days to prove
his client’s case.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that having told
the PEPC they would need three weeks to prove their case, the petitioners now
have 19 days to go.
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