The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his party on Tuesday, told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja that they will be inviting the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Yakubu Mahmood to appear in court and give evidence in their joint petition challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.
At the proceedings of Tuesday, lead counsel to the petitioners, Chief Chris Uche (SAN) told the court that the INEC boss will be subpoenaed to appear in court to tender documents in their petition challenging Tinubu’s election.
Meanwhile, the petitioners tendered more documentary evidence in their joint petition against Tinubu’s election.
At Tuesday’s proceedings, Atiku and PDP’s lead counsel called the 19th and 20th Petitioners’ witnesses, Dr. Alex Adum Ter and Captain Olatunji Shelle who identified and adopted their witness statements on oath and tendered them as their evidence in the matter.
INEC, Tinubu and the APC, who are first to third respondents in the petition all objected to the admissibility of the witness statements on oath and told the court that they will give the grounds for their various objections at the final address stage. The court admitted the statements as exhibits.
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Among other documents tendered through the 19th witness witness, who is a star witness of the petitioners are three flash drives containing videos of INEC chairman, Prof Yakubu Mahmood, INEC’s National Commissioner, Mr Festus Okoye assuring Nigerians of the preparedness of INEC for a hitch-free conduct of the February 25 presidential election as well as a press briefing by the European Union election observer mission.
