The Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi has tendered eighteen thousand and eighty-eight (18,088) polling unit result sheets certified by INEC which are blurred among other documents in continuation of the prosecution of their case before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) in Abuja.
Onyechi Ikpeazu who is a Counsel to the Petitioners, tendered the documents through the petitioners’ fourth witness (PW4), Eric Ofoedu, who is a Professor of Mathematics at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.
The petitioners also tendered report of the witness’ analysis of some election materials, a copy of a letter, written to him by the LP, dated February 20, 2023, engaging Professor Ofoedu to help the party analyse data in respect of the presidential election which was held on the 25th of February and the subpoena issued on him to attend court and produce the said documents.
Counsel to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abubakar Mahmoud, Wole Olanipekun representing President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettma, and Lateef Fagbemi for the All Progressives Congress (APC) objected to the tendering of majority of the documents with a promise to adduce reasons for their objection at the final stage of their written addresses.
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Lawyers to the respondents expressed displeasure that the petitioners only served them the written statement of Professor Ofoedu a few minutes before the court arguing that they ought to be served earlier to enable them study the statement for the purpose of cross examination.
The petitioners also called its fifth witness (PW5), Lumnie Edevbie, another subpoenaed witness from a private television channel station who tendered a flash drive, containing a video recording of a presentation by INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu at the Chatham House, London.