The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential
candidate Atiku Abubakar as well as Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party
(LP), have closed their respective cases before the presidential election
petition court.
Here are the major highlights of Friday’s proceedings.
PDP, ATIKU CLOSE CASE
The PDP and Atiku closed their case on Friday after calling
27 witnesses and tendering several documents in evidence.
Although the petitioners had said they would call about 100
witnesses to support their petition, they ended their case after the 27th
witness was called.
The last witness tendered several documents — including a
BSc certificate from Chicago State University, a National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC) discharge certificate and Mobil Nigeria Oil Plc certificate of service —
which bore the name “Bola Adekunle Tinubu”.
Tinubu’s forms EC13 and EC9 submitted to the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) to enable him to contest the election were
also tendered.
LP WITNESS ASKS COURT
TO CANCEL ELECTION
Tanko Yunusa, the 12th witness of the LP and Peter Obi, told
the court that he prefers that an order is made cancelling the presidential
election.
Yunusa, who served as the spokesperson of the LP
presidential campaign, said out of 176,974 polling units in the country, his
party deployed 133,000 agents to monitor the elections.
Under cross-examination by Wole Olanipekun, President Bola
Tinubu’s counsel, Yunusa insisted that votes were allocated to all the
presidential candidates by INEC.
“If the results were
uploaded as required by the law, my party would have gotten more votes than
what was allocated to us,” he said.
He told the court that the election should be voided,
including the votes “allocated” to Obi.
“We are not satisfied with the outcome of the election. That
is why we are here in court. How do we know the actual votes we got when the
results are yet to be uploaded on the IReV portal, four months after the
election was held,” the witness said.
“We are challenging the entire results of the election and
if they are cancelled, it affects results that were allocated to all the
candidates, including votes scored by Atiku.”
OBI, LP CLOSE CASE
Like the PDP, Obi and his party have also concluded their
case.
During pre-hearing, the petitioners had said they would call
50 witnesses to support their case.
However, only 13 witnesses were called in total while
several documents were tendered and admitted in evidence by the court.
INEC TO OPEN CASE
JULY 3
Following the conclusion of the petitioners’ case, the
respondents are expected to commence their defence.
The tribunal fixed July 3 for INEC to open its case.
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