The Labour Party and its Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, have opened their petition against President Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), by calling one witness out of the 50 proposed.

Before the witness, who is a lawyer and hails from Anambra testified, counsel to Peter Obi, Jibrin Okutepa, tendered a judgment from a district court in the United States, which reportedly indicted Tinubu and ordered his forfeiture of 460,000 dollars in drug-related offences.

The hearing commenced, led in evidence by Okutepa, with an Anambra-based lawyer and LP witness, Lawrence Nwakaeti, tendering the certified true copy of the US district court judgment.

After cross-examination, counsel to Tinubu, Wole Olanipekun, said the witness admitted that the judgment was not registered in Nigeria.

The lawyer also admitted that there was no certificate from any consular in Nigeria or America in support of the judgment but insisted that the judgment speaks for itself.

The Presidential Election Petitions Court reconvened after a week to begin the definite hearing in the petitions by the Presidential Candidates of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP), alongside their parties, challenging Tinubu’s victory in the February 25 election.