PUNCH NEWS
The Presidential Election Petitions Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, admitted a total of 337 exhibits tendered by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, challenging the emergence of President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.
At the resumed hearing in the matter, the PDP and Atiku, through their legal team, led by Chief Chris Uche (SAN), informed the court that the documents in evidence were in respect of 33 states of the federation, with the exclusion of Kaduna, Kano, Katsina and Lagos states.
Among other documents that Atiku tendered before the court were results of the presidential election from Abia, Bayelsa, Kaduna and Ogun states.
The petitioners told the court that the certified results, which were contained in Forms EC8A, were downloaded by INEC from its I-Rev portal.
However, the respondents in the petition objected to the admissibility of the Certified True Copies of the documents which were presented before the court.
They said they would give reasons behind their objections, in their final written addresses.
Tinubu, through his team of lawyers led by Chief Wole Olanikpekun (SAN), objected to the tendering of information, which according to the petitioners were extracted from the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines that were used for the conduct of the 2023 presidential election…
