The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar Wednesday, presented additional electoral documents in evidence at the hearing of his petition at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja.
Atiku is challenging the victory of APC’s Bola Tinubu in the just concluded presidential election.
The documents presented are those Atiku Abubakar hopes can convince the five-member panel that INEC was wrong in declaring APC’s Bola Tinubu winner of the presidential election.
Among documents tendered in evidence were printouts of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System [BVAS] accreditation data from 32 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
Others are polling unit results downloaded from the INEC results, viewing portal or IReV of Abia, Bayelsa, Kaduna, and Ogun states were also tendered in evidence.
However, the Labour Party failed to begin tendering documents at the resumed hearing Wednesday on account of illness among key members of its legal team, thereby stalling hearing of its own petition.
Peter Obi’s legal team informed the Presidential Election Petition Court that it could not begin presentation of documents due to health-related challenges in its secretariat.
Awa Kalu, a member of the Labour Party legal team, informed the Justice Haruna Tsammani-led panel that an unforeseen development had hit the Labour Party’s legal team due to the illness of one of its ‘key staff’.
Peter Obi, the party’s candidate is also challenging the outcome of the presidential election.
But at the proceedings, all of the documents certified and authenticated by INEC in the spirit of the pre-hearing arrangement were however objected to by the electoral body, Tinubu and the APC through their lawyers.
Meanwhile, hearing of both the Labour Party and PDP petitions continues on Thursday June 1.
