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Wednesday, 21 June 2023 04:50

Atiku, PDP to close case against Tinubu at PEPC on Friday

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have indicated that they would close their case at the Presidential Election Petition Court on Friday. According to the pre-hearing report, the petitioners ought to close their case on Tuesday. However, at the session on Tuesday, Chris Uche, petitioners’ counsel told the court that his team lost two days out of the days allotted to them. One of the lost days was a public holiday to mark Democracy Day. He prayed the court for an extension of time by two days which the court agreed. Earlier, Uche applied to tender…

Tuesday, 20 June 2023 04:47

Obi brings staff of INEC’s website host to PEPC to refute claims of IReV glitches during presidential election

A witness of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Monday, told the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja that the INEC’s IReV portal did not experience any glitches to justify the failure to upload real time the polling unit results of the 25 February presidential election. INEC had, in a statement issued a day after the polls by its Commissioner for Voter Education, Festus Okoye, blamed unexpected technical glitches for the commission’s inability to ensure real-time uploading of results to IReV portal as provided in the guidelines for the election. Voting ended in most of the over 176,000…

Tuesday, 20 June 2023 04:46

APM asks for just one day to open, close its case against Tinubu

Allied Peoples Movement (APM) has told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that it will need only one day to open and close its case challenging the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the 25 presidential polls. The party says it has only one witness, who will testify and be cross-examined in just one day. Addressing the five-member panel of the court Monday, Gideon Idiagbonya, lawyer to the party, said: “My lords, we intended to open our case today but in the cause of having a pre-trial conference with our sole witness, but we realised that certain documents we intend…

Saturday, 17 June 2023 04:42

Melaye testifies for Atiku at PEPC, lists 3 grounds to support allegations of election rigging for Tinubu

A former senator, Dino Melaye, on Friday, appeared before the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja as a witness in the petition filed by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to challenge the outcome of the February presidential poll. Melaye, dubbed as a star witness of the petitioners, told the court that the final result of the presidential election announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was wrongly computed. The former senator, who is also the PDP candidate in the forthcoming Kogi State governorship election, is the 23rd witness the petitioners have called so far to challenge…

Friday, 16 June 2023 03:47

Peter Obi’s data analyst tells PEPC 18,000 result sheets from IReV blurred

On Thursday, the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja admitted over 18,000 polling unit results sheets as exhibits in Peter Obi’s petition challenging President Bola Tinubu’s victory. A data analyst subpoenaed to testify as Obi’s fourth witness said the about 18,000 result sheets obtained from INEC’s IReV were blurred. Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 25 February presidential election, is contesting INEC’s declaration of Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the race, on various grounds. The candidate, who came third in the polls, accused Nigeria’s electoral commission, INEC, of rigging the election in favour…

Friday, 16 June 2023 03:45

INEC chair sent representative to PEPC in response to Atiku’s subpoena. This is how it went

A representative of the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, on Thursday, appeared on a subpoena to tender electoral documents in the case filed by Atiku Abubakar to challenge the outcome of the 25 February presidential election. The witness tendered tons of electoral documents before the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja, which is conducting a hearing on the case. The documents were used in the conduct of the 25 February presidential election. Atiku, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had, through a subpoena, sought Yakubu’s appearance before the court regarding his petition challenging…

Thursday, 15 June 2023 03:55

Obi, INEC’s lawyers clash at PEPC over Yakubu’s alleged evasion of subpoena

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Wednesday, informed the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja that INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, has been evading service of a subpoena on him. Obi wants Yakubu to testify before the five-member panel of the court concerning his petition challenging President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the 25 February election. His claim that Yakubu was evading service of a subpoena came barely 24 hours after the lawyers to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, also signaled that they would be bringing the INEC chair to testify in…

Wednesday, 14 June 2023 04:03

PEPC: Obi tenders IReV reports in 5 states as further ‘proof’ election rigged for Tinubu

Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Tuesday, tendered reports of INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV) at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja. The INEC IReV portal warehouses photographic copies of polling unit result sheets of the 2023 general elections. It is an innovative component of the electoral umpire’s management of the recent polls. INEC had promised that the polling unit result sheets would be immediately uploaded to the IReV portal after the election was concluded at the various polling centres. INEC’s failure to keep to the promise triggered uproar from many Nigerians. The failure formed one of the…

Monday, 12 June 2023 02:07

Democracy Day: ‘Nigeria’s democratic system has in-built mechanism to self-correct’ - Obi

Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), says he won’t relent in his fight to bring about the leadership that Nigerians deserve. In a Democracy Day message, Obi said Nigerians should be inspired to correct the errors of the 2023 elections. According to the LP candidate, Nigerians on June 12, 1993, stated their unreserved preference for true democracy and chose a transparent voting system despite being under military rule. “Our votes reflected our true choice as a people. Our choice on that day defied divisions of ethnicity, religion, and region,” Obi said. “It is these qualities that added…

Sunday, 11 June 2023 04:04

Video clips of INEC chair, Tinubu in Peter Obi’s petition were played at PEPC. This is what they contain

Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja on Saturday played three video clips as evidence in Labour Party’s presidential candidate Peter Obi’s suit challenging President Bola Tinubu’s victory. Mr Tinubu, who won Nigeria’s presidency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the February presidential election, is battling to sustain his victory in court. In a bid to prove his allegation of Nigeria’s electoral commission, INEC’s, non-compliance with its guidelines in the conduct of the 25 February presidential election, Obi’s legal team tendered two flash drives containing INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, and another top official’s press interviews. Another video…

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Sunday, 11 June 2023 04:03

PEPC rejects Obi’s request to interrogate INEC’s IT staff

Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, on Saturday, struck out an application the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, filed for permission to interrogate the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on the technology it deployed for the conduct of the general elections. Specifically, Obi, who is challenging the outcome of the presidential election that was held on February 25, had in the application, prayed the court to compel the electoral body to answer 12 key questions he listed on an interrogatory he filed on May 22. He wanted INEC to among other things, tell the court…

Saturday, 10 June 2023 04:28

More INEC ad hoc officers testify for Atiku at PEPC

Two ad hoc officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday told the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja that they were instructed not to give election results sheets to political party agents who refused to sign the documents. The subpoenaed witnesses – Abidemi Joseph and Grace Ajagbonna – appeared before the five-member panel of the court chaired by Haruna Tsammani to testify in the petition filed by Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenging President Bola Tinubu’s victory. Atiku and Mr Obi are urging the court to overturn Tinubu’s victory. They are alleging electoral malpractices…

Friday, 09 June 2023 04:19

Obi applies to interrogate INEC’s IT experts before PEPC; Tinubu, INEC say NO

Labour Party and its presidential candidate in the February 25 election, Peter Obi, on Thursday evening, sought an order of the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja to interrogate the Independent National Electoral Commission. LP and Obi, among other things, are seeking details relating to the information and communication technology experts used by INEC in the conduct of the election. LP and Obi are challenging the declaration by INEC that Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress won the election. In two separate motions argued by their lawyer, Patrick Ikweto, Obi posed 12 questions to be forwarded to INEC as…

Thursday, 08 June 2023 04:33

Atiku slates INEC ad hoc staff to testify against ex-employer, Tinubu

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, indicated on Wednesday to call three electoral officers to testify for him at the ongoing hearing of the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja. The three witnesses, who will appear on subpoena, were part of the ad-hoc staff engaged by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct the 25 presidential election. Atiku, who alleged widespread irregularities and manipulations of results during the election, filed his petition at the court in March to challenge President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the disputed poll. He asked the five-member panel of the court…

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