*Atiku calls 18 of 100 witnesses to prove fraud at presidential election Alex Enumah in Abuja The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has dismissed two applications by the presidential candidate
The Presidential Election Petition Court has dismissed two applications by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Mr. Peter Obi, seeking to interrogate the Independent National Electoral Commission over the Information and Communication Technology experts used for the conduct of the February 25, 2023, presidential election.
The five-member panel had on Thursday reserved ruling after counsel to parties argued for and against the granting of the applications. According to the court, applications relating to electoral matters, including interrogatories must be filed and heard during the pre-hearing session, adding that any application which is brought after the end of pre-hearing must show extreme circumstances why the court should hear it.
While stating that the petitioners did not challenge the report of the panel that the pre-hearing session ended on May 22, “nor draw the attention of the court to the pending applications,” Justice Tsammani held that, “it is the duty of a party who files a motion to indicate its intention to move it…a process not moved is deemed not to have been filed.”
The two applications – the first seeking leave of court to bring the application and the second the main application was first filed on May 22 and replaced with another dated June 2. According to INEC’s lawyer, Mr. Kemi Pinhero , the applications were not only incompetent but amounted to a waste of the precious time of the PREPEC.
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