Mr Obi wants the INEC chair, Mahmood Yakubu, to testify before the presidential election court concerning his petition challenging President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the 25 February election.
, on Wednesday, informed the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja that INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, has been evading service of a subpoena on him.
Mr Obi’s legal team, led by Livy Uzoukwu, has been at loggerheads with Nigeria’s electoral commission over their inability to access electoral documents to aid their case. Mr Uzoukwu’s disclosure came about after Mr Obi’s legal team exhausted electoral documents it was tendering before the court. “It has become a habit. Whenever they want to seek an adjournment, they look for somebody to whip. It cannot be true that the office of the INEC Chairman refuses a subpoena.
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