The electoral umpire produced the form EC9, which contains Tinubu’s biodata pursuant to the subpoena issued on INEC Chairman, Yakubu Mahmoud, by the court.
The Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, are challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the February 25 presidential poll.
The PDP had on Tuesday disclosed that it subpoenaed the INEC chairman to appear before the court on Thursday in order to produce some requested documents necessary to prove their claim that Tinubu’s election was invalid. At the resumed hearing, PDP lawyer, Chris Uche , informed the court that the INEC chair, through a Deputy Director of the commission, M.O Tairu, had brought some of the required documents pursuant to the subpoena.
Following the notification of the court, Tairu tendered form EC8D, which is a series of results for the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The Certified True Copies of the accredited documents from the 36 states and the FCT were produced and presented in both soft and hard copies.She tendered before the court, accredited data from the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System with respect to Rivers State.Counsel for INEC, A.B. Mahmoud, also asserted that the petitioners had yet to pay for the certification of the documents tendered.
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