PEPC: Obi, LP tender results from 17 more states against Tinubu

Presidential Election Petition Court Obi

Peter Obi of Labour Party greeting lawyers at Presidential Election Petition court

By Edith Nwapi and Wandoo Sombo

Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi on Tuesday tendered results from 17 more states in their petition against the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the Presidential Election Petition, PEPC.

The documents were admitted as exhibits despite opposition by the lawyers to Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress, APC and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Obi and LP tendered the exhibits known as Forms EC8B.

Obi’s and the LP’s petition is marked as CA/PEPC/03/2023 and was filed against Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), his deputy, Alhaji Kashim Shettima and INEC, the electoral umpire.

At the resumed hearing of the petition, Obi and his party, through a counsel in his legal team, Mr Ben Anichebe (SAN) tendered the Forms EC8B from the 17 states they were contesting.

The states are Adamawa with results from 21 Local Government Areas (LGAs); Bayelsa (eight LGAs); Benue (23 LGAs); Kogi (21 LGAs); Nasarawa State (11 LGAs) and Niger (25 LGAs).

Others are Ondo State (18 LGAs); Sokoto State (21 LGAs); Delta (25 LGAs); Ekiti (11 LGAs); Imo (25 LGAs); Kaduna State (21 LGAs).

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The rest are Oyo State (27 LGAs); Cross River (18 LGAs), Edo (15 LGAs); Akwa Ibom (31 LGAs) and Lagos State (20 LGAs).

Counsel representing the respondents all objected to the tendering of the Forms EC8Bs by the petitioners.

They are Mr Kemi Pinhero (SAN), representing INEC, Mr Wole Olanipakun (SAN), representing Tinubu and Alhaji Shettima, and Mr Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) representing the APC.

They told the court that they would reserve reasons for their objection to the tendering of the forms until their final addresses.

The court, however, admitted all the documents tendered by the petitioners as their schedule of documents and marked them as exhibits.

The five-man panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani adjourned further hearing of the petition to Wednesday. (NAN) (www.nannews.ng)

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