Obi, LP tender more documents against Tinubu’s election

The Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, have tendered more documents before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja against the election of President Bola Tinubu.

The documents presented on Wednesday, June 7, were form EC8B series from four states, EC8C, from 13 states, EC8D from 36 states and FCT, and form EC8D(A) which is the national result.

Obi and the Labour Party are petitioners in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023 challenging the election which brought President Tinubu into power

The respondents are the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima, and the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The petitioners through their counsel, Paul Ananaba, SAN, tendered form EC8B series from 13 Local Government Areas in Ebonyi, four from Kaduna and Oyo states, and one was from Nasarawa State.

The documents, according to Ananaba, ended the EC8B series of the schedule of documents which are results from wards collation centres.

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The petitioners also tendered form EC8C series documents from eight LGAs of Bayelsa State, 23 for Benue State, 18 each from Cross River and Edo states, and 10 from Ebonyi State.

Other states are Lagos (20 LGAs), Niger (25), Ondo (18), Oyo (33), Rivers (23), Sokoto (23), Ekiti (16), and Delta (25).

Ananaba, who informed the court that they were done with form EC8C series, further tendered Form EC8D series from 36 states and the FCT.

EC8D series are the results of the election at state collation level.

He also tendered form EC8D(A) which was the national results.

The Counsel for INEC, T.N Inuwa, SAN; Mike Igbokwe SAN for Tinubu and Shettima; and Adebiyi Kassim, SAN, for APC; however, objected to the admissibility of the documents.

They told the court that reasons for their objections would be provided at their final written addresses stage.

The respondents, however, did not object to the admissibility of form EC8D(A) which is the national results.

All the documents tendered were admitted in evidence by the court.

The five-member panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, therefore, adjourned until Thursday, June 8, for further hearing of the petition.

The Star