The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic (PDP), and the PDP have tendered a total of 26,175 exhibits against the February 23, 2019 election that produced President Muhammadu Buhari as President.This was even as the Counsel to President Buhari, Mike Igbokwe (SAN), as well as that of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Yunus Ustaz Usman, and that of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Charles Edosomwan (SAN) objected to the admissibility of the documents. They informed the tribunal that reasons for their objections would be made at the address stage of hearing in the Petition.
At the hearing of Atiku’s petition today, July 5, at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja, the party and its candidate presented the exhibits in support of their 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 Atiku’s lead counsel, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu (SAN).
Atiku had, yesterday, 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.
Atiku’s lawyer, Uzoukwu, also 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 to Monday, July 8.
