The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 presidential election, Mr Peter Obi and his party on Thursday tendered documents from six states of the federation to prove their petitions against the election of President Bola Tinubu.
Although, the petitioners at the resumed hearing on Thursday disclosed that they are challenging the election results in only 18 states of the federation.
The affected states are; Rivers, Benue, Cross River, Niger, Osun, and Ekiti.
Obi and LP had anchored their petitions on grounds that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) violated its own regulations and guidelines in addition to manipulating the process in favour of Tinubu and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The documents mainly Forms EC8A, which are election results from polling units were admitted and marked accordingly as exhibits by the Justice Haruna Tsammani five member panel of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PREPEC).
For Rivers State, the petitioners tendered EC8As from 15 LGAs instead of the initial 21 LGAs that was listed, while the results sheets from polling units in 23 LGAs was tendered from Benue State.
In Cross River State 18 EC8A results were also admitted and marked as Exhibits, while 23 in Niger State, 20 in Osun and 16 in Ekiti Local Government Areas, were also admitted in evidence.
Interestingly, INEC which issued the documents and certified them as genuine, joined other respondents to object to the admissibility of the said documents.
The other respondents are President Tinubu, his Vice, Kashim Shetima and the APC.
Meanwhile, hearing continues on June 2.
Credit: This Day