For the third time, the Presidential Election Petition
Court, PEPC, was forced to step down hearing in the petition filed by Mr Peter
Gregory Obi and the Labour Party, LP, against the election of President Bola
Ahmed Tinubu.
The petition was stepped down by the court following a poor
schedule of documents being sought to be tendered to establish the allegations
of malpractices during the February 25 presidential election.
At Thursday’s proceedings, the court discovered that the
documents were not properly scheduled as ordered by the Court.
In the drama that ensued at the point of rendering the documents from the 23 local government areas of Benue, a lot of discrepancies were uncovered.
All efforts to reconcile the anomaly and reschedule the
documents were unsuccessful as the errors were beyond immediate solution.
To save the situation, counsel to Obi and the Labour Party,
Chief Emeka Okpoko SAN, sought to use documents not filed to conduct the proceedings,
but the move was rejected on the ground of illegality.
In the end, the court stepped down hearing of the petition
and ordered the legal team to go and re-file the schedule of documents in line
with the provisions of the pre-hearing report.
The hearing of Obi’s petition had run into stormy waters
three times, prompting the shift in the hearing of the petition.
At the time of this report, Peter Obi and the Vice
Presidential candidate, Datti Baba Ahmed, were in the court as their lawyers
were running helter and skelter to the Registry of the Court to file a new
schedule of documents.
Meanwhile, the five Justices led by Justice Haruna Simon
Tsammani hearing the petition have retired to their chambers to await when the
legal team will put its house in order.
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Obi doesn't have any case, he's just doing gragra.
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