Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, Thursday, produced before the Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja, a document that contained President Bola Tinubu’s age.
Recall that the Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel of the court had in May issued a subpoena for the INEC chairman to produce 11 sets of exhibits.
At the proceedings on Thursday, Yakubu tendered Form EC9, an affidavit of personal particulars which President Tinubu submitted to the INEC in aid of his qualification to contest the 2023 presidential election.
At the resumed proceedings, a senior official of the Commission who stood for Yakubu tendered four of the requested exhibits.
Mrs. Moronkeji Tairu, the representative, told the court that she is a Deputy Director, Certification & Complaints, Legal Drafting and Clearance Department at the INEC headquarters in Abuja.
Tairu, who mounted the witness box, told the court that she brought Forms EC8D series, which were results of the presidential election from the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.
The second exhibit she tendered before the court was a Form EC8D (A), which was the final declaration of the result of the presidential election by INEC.
Other documents tendered were reports of extracts from the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, machines in respect of Rivers State, certified copies of accreditation data from the BVAS, relating to the 36 states of the federation and the FCT.
Lastly, the witness tendered the certified true copy of the Form EC9 that President Tinubu submitted to INEC and it was admitted in evidence and marked as Exhibit PAJ 40.
Mrs. Tairu told the court that owing to the bulky nature of some of the requested documents, the Commission extracted 10 copies from each state and packaged the remaining details in flash drives she also handed to the panel.
President Tinubu, through his team of lawyers led by Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, has raised objection on the admissibility of all the documents in evidence.
Toeing the same line, the All Progressives Congress, through its legal team led by Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, also raised its objection against all the exhibits that were tendered by the representative of the INEC chairman.
The panel has adjourned till Friday, June 16, for further hearing.