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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and his party will on Thursday, close their case at the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC) in their t petition challenging the outcome of the Feb. 25 presidential election.

The petitioners, according to a pre-hearing report were supposed to close their case on Tuesday.

However, at the resumed hearing of the petition, the petitioner’s lead counsel, Chris Uche, SAN told the court that his clients lost two days out of the days allotted to them and prayed the court to allow them two more days.
The court agreed with Uche because one of the days lost was the Democracy Day Public Holiday of June 12.

Earlier, Uche told the court that in spite of the spirit of cooperation that the court had appealed for, it was still difficult to get Certified True Copies (CTC) of documents from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

According to him, getting documents from INEC is like asking your opponents for weapons.


He said that they had asked INEC for Form EC8A series for all the 36 states and the FCT but had gotten only 14 batches so far.

The senior counsel said that the documents were brought to them in court by INEC and that although certified by the commission, they had not been sorted out in a proper manner.
“These are forms EC8A series from the 35 states and we will start with Abia, and after tendering it, all parties will come together to ensure that they are sorted out properly,’’ he said.

This, however, did not go down well with the court and other counsel.

The documents even though certified, had not been paid for, adding that, it was the responsibility of the petitioners to sort out documents they subpoenaed.

The Chairman of the Court, Justice Haruna Tsammani decided to stand down the matter for about 10 minutes to allow counsel decide on how to proceed.

When the ten minutes elapsed, Uche prayed the court for an adjournment to allow his team prepare a schedule on how to tender the documents to the court on Wednesday.

The court subsequently adjourned hearing of the petition until Wednesday.

Speaking to newsmen after the court session, Uche said that ordinarily, the petitioners would have closed their case on Tuesday.

“We are closing our case on Thursday, it was supposed to end today but because we lost two days, one of which was the June 12 public holiday, the court graciously extended our time by two days.”

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the petitioners who said during the pre-hearing session that they would call 100 witnesses have called only 25 of them so far.

Uche said that they might call an additional five witnesses to have a round figure of 30 witnesses.

The senior lawyer, however, said that some of the documents they sought to tender in the remaining two days would take the place of the remaining 70 witnesses.

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Give us another credible news source and not this evening newspaper

Government of fake news

“ According to him, getting documents from INEC is like asking your opponents for weapons.”


🤣🤣🤣🤣


So you knew all this and still went ahead!


Someone should extend this communication to Peter’s lawyers, maybe they will learn one or two.


Going against the very powers that make be!

Some humans are just jokers, if humans were God, I would have created most as cat fish.

They can only be good with seasoning and orange juice.

INEC come serious my jagaban, they come carry the matter for head. Though good one from the INEC.

I think its about time another neutral and independent commission is created to handle all electoral documents in the country. After inec staffs must have done their calculations, gotten their figures from all forms, declared the results at the polling units and successfully transmitting them to the next collation centers; the electoral documents is immediately transfered to the new commission that now bears the responbilities of safe storage and issuance on request to any one haven secured a court order to that effect.

This place make me weak, i swear.

SangoOlukosoOba:
[b]“ According to him, getting documents from INEC is like asking your opponents for weapons.”

Idontbiliv

So Atiku case don finish? Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣 clowns!

Lawyers collected there share from baba Dubai

YouandiAllofus:
I think its about time another neutral and independent commission is created to handle all electoral documents in the country. After inec staffs must have done their calculations, gotten their figures from all forms, declared the results at the polling units and successfully transmitting them to the next collation centers; the electoral documents is immediately transfered to the new commission that now bears the responbilities of safe storage and issuance on request to any one haven secured a court order to that effect.

Wishful imagination, only looking for another reason to wail, another independent commission indeed.

Nonsense.

KingMakers11:
Could this be true

No case.

favor914:
Wishful imagination, only looking for another reason to wail, another independent commission indeed.

Nonsense.

That is what will put an end to the frustrating tatics being melted out to deter the complainant's efforts at retrieving relevant documents to buttress their case before the court especially when the commission itself is a defendant in such case

I see Pandora Obituary being disgraced out of court if he fails to follow Atiku step
..



Jah bless

Interesting

No man born out of woman can unseat Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Jagaban

Waziri has done well


Second position is now out of race

Let's see if court will now announce Obi as second


Obituaries should let the sleeping dog lies now that Nigerians and foreigners are in love with Asiwaju istration policies



Jah bless

The announcement that Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will be closing their case challenging Bola Tinubu's election on Thursday marks an important milestone in the ongoing legal battle. It's crucial for all parties involved to respect the legal process and allow it to run its course. While it's understandable for the losing party to be disappointed, it's important to maintain civility and respect for the rule of law. Ultimately, the goal should be to ensure free and fair elections that reflect the will of the people. I hope that the outcome of this case will contribute to strengthening our democratic institutions and processes.

But they’re still in the tribunals

Better luck next time

Atiku case of 2019 against buhari still dey court. Baba don tire.

Obi will drag this case till 2031, then continue till 2039

Expecting to drop the case since and leave that Idiotic element

Atiku has seen the light ☺

E remain Thomas wey find am difficult to believe Jesus has risen !!!!

E go clear for hin eye soon..

Atiku no wan too waste money..

As for Lamba Nanu;

Atiku is not someone that challenges the outcome of past election, as soon as he loses, he runs back to Dubai.

The only reason Atiku took up the case was because of Peter Obi.

Expecting to drop the case since and leave that Idiotic element
Obi will be fined after the long battle

He has weight options.

Expecting to drop the case since and leave that Idiotic element
Obi will be fined after the long battle
Obedient of disobedient