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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has cautioned the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi to desist from blaming it for their inability to effectively prosecute their case before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC).

INEC’s lawyer, Kemi Pinheiro (SAN), spoke in reaction to a claim by the lawyer to LP and Obi, Livy Uzoukwu (SAN) that the office of the Chairman of INEC declined to accept a subpoena served on Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to produce some documents.

Uzoukwu made the claim mid-way into proceedings on Wednesday after another member of the petitioners’ legal team, Audu Anuga (SAN), who was tendering documents, suddenly announced that he has exhausted what they have for the day.

Uzoukwu, who is the leader of the petitioners’ legal team, rose and told the court that his team would have loved to continue, but for the refusal of the INEC Chairman’s office to accept a subpoena served on him to produce some documents, a development that was hindering progress in their case.

Reacting, Pinheiro noted that it has become a pattern with the petitioners to always look for someone to blame whenever they were stuck and unable to progress with the handling of their case.

Pinheiro said: “It has become a habit. Whenever they want to seek an adjournment, they look for somebody to whip. It cannot be true that a subpoena is refused by the office of the INEC Chairman.

“Don’t use INEC as a whipping boy. If they have nothing else to do today, they should just stay so. It is their day. It is not correct that the office of INEC Chairman refused to accept a subpoena.”

https://thenationonlineng.net/just-in-stop-blaming-us-for-your-failure-inec-tells-obi-lp/?fbclid=IwAR386uKR3Wn3HrHJZkY6TUBf0HAsajEw9nziV1YGaZledB65PYovUWOQhDc

It's the fact

Argue it

INEC staff have turned to a drama queens

Obedients will cut inec head for this speech

Nina wa

Peter Obi is coming.

Shey Eyeneck suppose dey neutral ?

saintjimos:
It's the fact

Argue it

Be sincere did you understood what he said?

Hope they got the memo. It has become a habit for them to blame everyone and everything but themselves for their own failure.

Meanwhile, whenever I see the Obidients alluding that Jagaban is using their god's blueprint to work, I simply smile rather than get irritated. I smile because I see the enemies itting, by that statement, that Mr President is doing a good job, but they're too ashamed to say it verbatim.

Ride on Asiwaju. Well meaning Nigerians are firmly standing by you.

talented321:
Obedients will cut inec head for this speech

in saner climes, the INEC chairman shouldn't spend a day beyond 25 February 2023 on his seat as INEC chairman. Those speeches are indicting the entire electoral umpire

See INEC set dey issue out a statement, nothing tinubu no go see for Abuja

The fact is that they were served on time ,but as usual,the first respondent [ INEC ] keep employing delay tactics to frustrate the petitioners [ LP and peter Obi ] .


Now,when is the big media outlets going to carry the news that INEC gave the petitioners and they also certified copies of documents from Gombe and Kaduna state that can't be traced to any LGA in any of those states ?


In essence,some of the IREV documents used in announcing Tinubu as the president were ed and certified by INEC,and given to the petitioners [ labour party and peter Obi ] cannot be linked/traced to any LGA in those states.

They were presented in court today,and were itted as exhibits by the court.

Those are the big news ,not this nonsense here.

Follow this link to get the genuine dramas that unfolded in court today ,not this inconsequential news the medias are parading .


https://nairaland.unblockandhide.com/7727352/peter-obi-vs-tinubu-14th


you're welcome.

UPDATED;

No single one of them have quoted me to disprove my claim .

They have all avoided my post like a plague.
They definitely understands that in the face of facts their propaganda runs dry, literally.

Gbam
Peter obi is a failure
Congrats to Tinubu once more

Propaganda from Tinubu the Nation newspaper, thank God we follow the court live today and nothing of such happened.

What a fact from the respondents.

Obi keeps blaming everyone and claiming he is not challenging the outcome but the process.

Who is to blame for Obi's default of the process when he bought nomination form in PDP and partook in the screening, only to become the presidential candidate of a party he is not a member?

Obi is the main problem with the process.

The only illegitimate presidential candidate of all the many contestants.

Say anything you like yakubu will still eat watery beans in kirikiri.

HIGHESTPOPORI:
Propaganda from Tinubu the Nation newspaper, thank God we follow the court live today and nothing of such happened.

The Nation is Pro-APC, AIT is Pro-PDP while Arise is Pro-LP.

Most media outlets in Naija have their Political leanings. Similar thing obtains in advanced societies and it's sad.

Media outlets should always be neutral.

🤔

What happened to Emefiele should also happen to Yakubu if Tinubu is serious about cleansing the rot in the system

Obi is just wasting his time. I wonder how he wish to pull through this. No problems, Lawyers are human beings too. They must eat.

Terrible!

ggg

If you are from South South and South East I hope you can see what is happening. Don't you ever say "it's not that deep" because it really is. Start making arrangements to leave the country for your own good. But if you refuse to leave, anything you see you take!

Nigeria is not getting better any time soon no amount of "tinubu government will favour me and my family bla bla bla" or what tinubu is currently doing will change that.

Anybody who has been following the court will just shake his or her head and give up that the country is gone and no stupid renewed hope is coming anywhere.

Inec that should be neutral can't even defend why tinubu was declared winner even when peter obi SURPRISINGLY won. And they keep attacking peter obi like they have personal beef. They never attack atiku this that.

I think the beef is that they never expected an igbo man to be this popular to the extent of winning the election

Ok

see your brown teeth

Ruskov:


Terrible!

Our mandate must be restored. It cannot be Bulkachuwalized

J

Inec is electoral wing of APC.