INEC, President Tinubu and APC have opposed the appearance of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and PDP subpoenaed witnesses to testify. INEC counsel objected to the evidence of the first witness during the Feb. 25 presidential election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission , President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, on Wednesday in Abuja, opposed the appearance of subpoenaed witnesses of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party, to testify.
Counsel to the petitioners, Mr Chris Uche, SAN, informed the court that the petitioners had three subpoenaed witnesses and went ahead to call the first one. He insisted that the witness could not be taken since he was said to be an Adhoc staff of the Commission and as such he would have to go and look at INEC records to enable him to confirm the status of the witness and prepare adequately.
Uche pleaded with the court to take at least one of the subpoenaed witnesses saying there was nothing strange in the statement to warrant an adjournment. Nwobu, in his evidence-in-chief, told the court that he was forced to sign Form EC8D because it became evident that if he did not sign, INEC would not give him a copy.Under cross-examination by Mr Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN, the witness told the court that although the election was peaceful at his polling unit, INEC officials refused to upload the results to INEC Result Verification Portal, .
The witness also told Mr Akin Olujimi, SAN, counsel to President Bola Tinubu that Labour Party won the election in Anambra.
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