APC, Tinubu Kick Against Allowing INEC Officials To Testify As Witnesses Before Presidential Election TribunalPresident Tinubu, who is the second respondent in a petition filed by former Vice Presiden
t and Peoples Democratic Party candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar seeking to overturn his election victory, stated that he had no knowledge of the contents of statements made by witnesses under oath before the court.
The president, relying on a multitude of determined case laws, said it was not acceptable for Atiku and the PDP, the joint petitioners, to spring a surprise by submitting statements of subpoenaed witnesses midway through the hearing of their case. The APC, led by Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, contended that Atiku should have submitted the written statements of the witnesses when the case was filed.
He added that the grounds highlighted in the Respondents' objections were misconceived, emphasising that it would not have been able to front-load the written testimonies of the subpoenaed witnesses because they had not been summoned at the time the petition was filed.
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