* As court admits $460,000 drug-related forfeiture judgment exhibit Alex Enumah in Abuja The Labour Party (LP) and its candidate in the last presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, on Tuesday,
The Labour Party and its candidate in the last presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, on Tuesday, commenced their case against the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu by calling their very first witness in the petition.
The five-member panel of the Presidential Election Petition Court had last adjourned to May 30 for commencement of hearing. The witness, a legal practitioner, who claimed to have voted at his Umuezeala village square polling unit in Anambra State, under cross examination by Tinubu’s lawyer, Chief Wole Olanipekun , admitted that the judgment was not registered in Nigeria.
Reacting to another question from Olanipekun, the witness who disclosed that he once visited the United States in 2003, and have read the judgment in its entirety, told the senior lawyer that he would be surprised if no mention was made of $460,000 forfeiture in the document he is testifying about.
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