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Mr. Peter Obi, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Vice
Presidential Candidate in the February 23 presidential election stood for the
two petitioners, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and PDP.
Former Chairman of the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, who was absent on
Thursday represented President Muhammadu Buhari while the All Progressives
Congress (APC) was represented by Mr. Dare Oketade.
Dr. Livy Uzuokwu SAN led the
legal team of the petitioners Mr. Yunus Ustaz Usman SAN for the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) Mr. Mike Igbokwe SAN for President Buhari
and Mr. Charles Edosomwan SAN for APC.
Atiku Abubakar, Presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic and his party, the PDP on Friday tendered a
total of 26,175 exhibits against the February 23, 2019 election that produced
Muhammadu Buhari as President and in support of his petition seeking
nullification of the election on grounds of fraud, election malpractices and
non qualification of Buhari to stand for the poll.
The documents were tendered
through his lead counsel, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu (SAN) at the Presidential Election
Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal, Abuja.
Atiku had, on Thursday,
kick-started hearing of his petition before Justice Mohammed Lawal Garba led
tribunal when he tendered a total of 5,196 documents as part of efforts to
establish fraud and malpractices in the February 23 election that produced
Buhari.
The documents tendered yesterday
comprised mainly result sheets from polling units, wards and local governments
in eight states, while receipts for certification of documents from the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were tendered and admitted as
exhibits along with the result sheets.
The eight states where the
documents emanated from are Katsina, Kebbi, Borno, Jigawa, Gombe, Bauchi,
Kaduna and partly Kano.
The breakdown of the documents
indicated that 3,378 came from Katsina; 2,106 came from Kebbi; 3,472 from
Borno; 3,162 from Jigawa; 1,912 from Gombe; 3,539 from Bauchi; 3,335 from
Kaduna and 5,271 came from Kano.
Atiku's lawyer, while tendering
the documents told the tribunal that the remaining ones from Kano state would
be brought on Monday, the adjourned date.
Counsel to INEC, Yunus
Ustaz Usman, that of Buhari, Mike Igbokwe (SAN) and that of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Charles Edosomwan (SAN) objected to the
admissibility of the documents but however informed the tribunal that reasons
for their objections would be made at the address stage of hearing in the
Petition.
Uzoukwu, Atiku’s lawyer told the
tribunal that his team will begin to call witnesses at the end of tendering of
documents by the team.
The tribunal adjourned further
hearing in the petition till Monday, July 8, 2019.
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