Some presidential election results presented by the Labour Party (LP) and Sir Peter Obi, its presidential candidate, to support their claim against the victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC). were on Friday admitted by the court.
Lead counsel to Obi on Friday informed the court sitting in Abuja that he had a schedule of more evidence which they desire to tender before the court.
The counsel continued with evidence (election results) from Rivers and Kogi States, presenting certified true copies of INEC election results from six local government areas (LGAs) in Rivers State as evidence.
Admitted also were results from Niger, Adamawa, Oyo, Bayelsa, and Edo States tendered by the LP.
The petitioner also presented additional certified true copies of election results from Bida LGA of Niger State and 21 LGAs in Adamawa State.
Again, counsels to the first, second and third respondents objected to the admissibility of the evidence.
However, the court admitted the documents as evidence, while awaiting the arguments of the respondents who are opposed to the admissibility of the documents.
Additional evidence tendered by the petitioner were from eight LGAs in Bayelsa State, 31 LGAs in Oyo, and 18 LGAs in Edo State.
The LP further presented evidence from 20 LGAs in Lagos, where they argued that their votes were under-counted. The affected 20 LGAs include Apapa, Lagos Island, Lagos mainland, Ikorodu, Amuwo Odofin, Ibeju Lekki, Ikeja, Ifako-Ijaye, Kosofe, and Oshodi-Isolo.
Obi and Julius Abure, his party’s national chairman, arrived the court around 9:20 am for continuation of the hearing at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.
At Thursday’s proceeding, the LP candidate tendered results from 115 local government areas (LGAs) as part of his evidence to back his claims, but the respondents opposed the evidence he tendered.
The LP and its candidate are challenging the victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February 25 election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Tinubu, 71, as the winner with 8,794,726 votes. His closest rival, 76-year-old former Vice President Atiku Abubakar (PDP), got 6,984,520 votes, Obi finished the race with 6,101,533.
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