In a bid to demonstrate his seriousness, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in February 25 election, Peter Obi, has deployed a Professor of Mathematics, Eric Ofoedu, to the court hearing his petition against President Bola Tinubu to analyse election documents towards establishing Obi’s claim to victory.
The LP and Obi are challenging the outcome of the election wherein Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress was declared as the elected president by INEC.
During the resumed hearing on Thursday, counsel for the petitioners, Onyechi Ikpeazu SAN conducted the proceedings on behalf of the LP and Obi.
As ‘The Punch’ reports, the Senior Advocate at the start of the sitting informed the court that he intended to call to the witness box the professor of Mathematics to testify before the court.
The witness was said to have been engaged a few days before the election by the 2nd petitioner, LP to carry out an analysis of the data from the February 25 election.
Admitted also in evidence were the letter addressed to Ofoedu seeking his service and the subpoena served on him to appear before the court.
The respondents in the suit namely; the Independent National Electoral Commission, Tinubu, his vice-president, Kashim Shettima, and the APC all objected to the admissibility of the documents.
Specifically, counsel for the APC, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), objected to the admissibility of the subpoena served on the witness but gave his consent to the court to admit the letter of engagement.
