The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its Presidential candidate in the February 25, 2023 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar yesterday tendered documents in their joint petition challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the election.
The documents included, Certified True Copies of the print out of Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS), in respect of 33 states of the Federation with the exception of Kaduna, Kano, Katsina and Lagos state.
Other documents tendered were Certified True Copies of form EC8 As, for Abia state, Bayelsa, Kaduna and Ogun states, which were duly certified by INEC.
The PDP prayed the court to deem the documents as read pursuant to provisions of paragraph 46(a) of the first schedule of the Electoral Act.Having tendered the documents, the Chairman of the court, Justice Haruna Tsammani, admitted them as evidence.
Speaking after the proceedings, PDP’s counsel Chris Uchesaid, after pushing the documents they will proceed to call witnesses.
Meanwhile, the Petition of Labour Party and its Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, could not be heard due to ill health of two Key staff in the Secretariat of the party.
Counsel to Obi and the LP, Awa Kalu, made this known at the resumed hearing of the case.
He asked for an adjournment to today, June 1, for continuation.
The five-man panel of Justices led by Justice Haruna Tsammani subsequently adjourned hearing of their petition to today, June 1.
