The Presidential Election Petition Court has admitted forms for the collation of presidential election results in 17 states as exhibits in a petition filed against the election of President Bola Tinubu in the February 25, 2023 election.
The petitioners: Labour Party and its candidate, Peter Obi, tendered the exhibits known as Forms EC8B on Tuesday.
Obi’s and the LP’s petition is marked as CA/PEPC/03/2023 and was filed against Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress; his deputy, Alhaji Kashim Shettima; and Independent National Electoral Commission.
Others are Ondo (18 LGAs), Sokoto (21 LGAs), Delta (25 LGAs), Ekiti (11 LGAs), Imo (25 LGAs) and Kaduna (21 LGAs).
Counsel representing the respondents all objected to the tendering of the Forms EC8Bs by the petitioners.
They are Kemi Pinhero (SAN), representing INEC; Wole Olanipakun (SAN), representing Tinubu and Shettima; and Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), representing the APC.
They told the court that they would reserve reasons for their objection to the tendering of the forms until their final addresses.
The court, however, admitted all the documents tendered by the petitioners as their schedule of documents and marked them as exhibits.
The five-man panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani adjourned further hearing of the petition to Wednesday.
