INEC, APC, and Mr Tinubu unanimously objected to the electoral officer testifying for Atiku on Wednesday.
, was prevented from calling a subpoenaed electoral officer to testify before the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja on Wednesday.
Counsel for the petitioners, Chris Uche, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria , invited the subpoenaed witness to testify as his clients’ 12th witness midway into Wednesday’s proceedings. The witness was said to be a member of INEC’s ad hoc staff involved in the conduct of the 25 February presidential election.
As soon as the witness entered the witness box, INEC’s lawyer, Abubakar Mahmoud, also a SAN, objected to the witness giving his testimony. Counsel for Mr Tinubu, Akin Olujimi, SAN, and that of the APC, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, said they were served with the witness statement on Wednesday and needed time to peruse it for proper cross-examination.
But he met stiff opposition from the respondents’ legal teams, who insisted they had to peruse the witness statements before the concerned witnesses could testify. ”The election went well in my polling unit, and the result was entered, but we insisted that the result be uploaded on IREV; all efforts proved abortive.
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