Atiku Abubakar the candidate of People's Democratic party (PDP) on Tuesday, May 30, presented a total of 118 exhibits have before the five-member panel of the Presidential Election Petition Court in his case against President Bola Tinubu.
Let's remember that Atiku and the PDP approached the tribunal to challenge the Independent National Electoral Commission’s declaration of Tinubu, who contested under the All Progressives Congress, as the winner of the February 25 election.
The petition alleged to Tinubu was that "was not duly elected by the majority of lawful votes cast at the election”. It was also alleged that “was at the time of the election, not qualified to contest” and he was alleged for his inconsistency in his age and his educational certificates.
Atiku tendered his first set of exhibits before the court through one of his lawyers, Eyitayo Jegede at the moment of his commencement on Tuesday 30th may.
Some of the exhibits tendered in evidence included certified copies of the results of the presidential election from the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory.
Other exhibits include printouts of data obtained from the bimodal voter accreditation system and records of the number of permanent voter cards used for the election across the 36 states and the FCT. All exhibits tendered were admitted as evidence.
There was no witnesses called by the petitioners during the hearing so the respondents in the case reserved their objections to any of the documents, until their final written address.
All the respondents in the matter told the court that they would reserve their objections to any of the documents, till their final written address.
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