Witnesses of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gave
testimonies and the party played video evidence at the presidential election
petition tribunal on Tuesday.
Here are five takeaways from the session.
ATIKU SUBPOENAS INEC
CHAIR, SECRETARY
Chris Uche, counsel to Atiku Abubakar and the PDP, told the tribunal that he had subpoenaed Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to appear before the court to testify.
Uche said the INEC chairman would tender some sensitive
documents during his appearance.
Omoa Oriaran-Anthony, secretary of the electoral commission,
was also subpoenaed.
WITNESS TENDERS VIDEO
EVIDENCE, SCREENSHOTS OF IReV
The PDP presented a star witness; Alex Ter, former
attorney-general of Benue state. Ter told the court that he served as the
coordinator of the national situation room of the PDP during the February 25
presidential election.
The witness tendered videos and screenshots of results from
the IReV portal to the court.
Subsequently, the court admitted the multimedia exhibits as
evidence.
PLAYING OF VIDEO
EVIDENCE
The petitioners played the three video clips tendered by the
witness at the proceedings.
The videos contained interviews with the INEC chairman and
Festus Okoye, INEC national commissioner, giving assurances on the
functionality of the bimodal voter accreditation system (BVAS) in the 2023
elections.
There was also a video of the European Union (EU) election
observer mission.
PDP PRESENTS RETIRED
NAVAL OFFICER AS WITNESS
The petitioners also presented Olatunji Shelle, a retired
naval officer, as its 20th witness to testify before the tribunal.
Shelle told the court that during the February 25 election,
thugs attacked voters in Lagos state.
During cross-examination, Abubakar Mahmoud, counsel to INEC,
asked the witness the number of polling units he visited on election day.
Responding, Shelle said he visited about 40 polling units in
Lagos.
Asked for his reaction when he saw thugs attacking voters,
he said: “I didn’t do anything because I was not in charge of security.”
OBI TENDERS DOCUMENTS
Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) sought to tender Forms
EC40G for five states.
The states are Niger (10 LGAs), Oyo (7 LGAs), Osun (8 LGAs),
Edo (3 LGAs), and Sokoto (4 LGAs).
The petitioners had also tendered IReV reports from five
states during Tuesday’s proceedings.
Lawyers of the respondents — INEC, President Bola Tinubu,
Vice-President Kashim Shettima and the All Progressives Congress (APC) —
objected to the admissibility of the documents and said they would reserve
their objections until the final address.
The five-member panel of the court led by Haruna Tsammani
admitted the documents as exhibits.
The presidential election petition tribunal was adjourned to
June 14.
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