On Tuesday, the Labour Party and Peter Obi, who ran for president in the previous election, submitted more exhibits in opposition to Bola Tinubu’s designation as the election’s victor.
The exhibits, which were primarily results sheets and reports utilized by the Independent National Electoral Commission during the election, were accepted by the Presidential Election Petition Court.
The Independent National Electoral Commission declared Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the election, and the LP and Obi are contesting that decision.
Peter Afoba, SAN, the attorney representing the LP and Obi, submitted documents EC40GPU and EC40G1, which are a list of registered voters for polling places and local governments where elections were postponed or did not take place.
The presentation covered 52 EC40GPU forms throughout five local government areas in Sokoto, 45 EC40GPU forms across 10 local government areas in Niger State, 23 in 7 local government areas in Osun, and 17 in 3 local government areas in Edo State.
Obi also submitted 15 EC40G forms in eight LGAs of Osun State, 12 EC40G1 forms in 12 LGAs of Edo, 15 EC40G forms in four LGAs of Sokoto, and 9 EC40G1 forms in two LGAs of Sokoto.
To support their claims of electoral fraud, the petitioners also submitted five reports on the conduct of the election in Niger State and eight in Edo.
The INEC Results Viewing reports for the 21 local government areas in Adamawa State, the 20 in Ogun State, the 16 in Ekiti State, the 19 in Rivers State, and the 25 in Akwa Ibom State were also submitted.
Justice Haruna Tsammani accepted the exhibits despite the respondents to the petition’s objections to their admissibility: INEC, Tinubu, vice president Kashim Shetima, and the All Progressives Congress, chairman of the PEPC.
The court also postponed more petition hearings until June 14.