- Dr. Livy Uzoukwu SAN leads the Petitioners Team
- Dr. Kemi Pinhero SAN leads the 1st Respondent Team
- Chief Akin Olujimi SAN leads the 3rd & 4th Respondents Team.
- Lateef Fagbemi SAN leads the 4th Respondent Team
Let the battle (of tendering, objecting & admitting) begin.😂
Dr Livy just informed the court that they are ready to continue the tendering of documents this morning. And he says that Prof Paul Ananaba SAN will conduct the proceedings for today.
Prof Paul:
He informs the court that they will start by tendering the INEC certified documents of Forms EC8Bs for Ebonyi State. From the Petitioners Schedule of Documents, they'll tender for 12 LGAs of Ebonyi State.
1st Respondent:
They object to the admissibility and will avail reasons at address stage.
2nd & 3rd Respondent:
They also object to the admissibility and the reasons will be made in their final written address.
4th Respondent:
Object to the admissibility, reasons at address.
The Court just noted that they tendered some of these same LGAs yesterday (Kaduna North & South).
Prof. Ananaba noted that they were not complete and seek to be added.
The court noted that this will give them difficult in marking the Exhibits as they have been marked already.
Prof Paul replied that the Justices are 'Masters of the Art' and can find the best possible ways.
😂😂😂Lawyers and scope... What do you expect from a Professor and a Senior Advocate!?
My Lords say they are lost on what to do ooo 😂😂😂
'Please, Masters of the Art, we are looking up to you biko'
😂😂😂
My Lords have asked for 1 minute to reconcile 😂😂😂
Please quick question, are we having this problem because it's a 'PROFESSOR' presenting this case?
That title did us strong thing in this election ooo...
The Court:
The documents for the 4 LGAs have been admitted into evidence and marked accordingly.
Prof Paul:
They'll now tender 'additional' Forms EC8Bs for Oyo State (at this point, the court grumbles)
Recall that documents for Oyo State had been tendered Yesterday.
The 4 additional Forms EC8Bs sought to be tendered in respect of Oyo State include... 1. Ibarapa Central 2. Akinyele 3. Ibadan South 4. Ogunoluwa
Now to Objections...
1st Respondent:
They object to the admissibility of the documents, reasons to be advanced at address stage.
2nd and 3rd Respondents:
They object to the admissibility of the documents and reasons to be given in their final written address.
4th Respondent:
They object to the admissibility of the documents and shall respectfully give their reasons at the time of final written address.
The Court:
The bundles of Forms EC8Bs of additional LGAs for Oyo State are admitted to evidence and hereby marked accordingly: 1. Ibarapa Central - PAK28 2. Akinyele - PAK29 3. Ibadan South - PAK 30 4. Ogunoluwa - PAK 31
The Petitioners will now tender 1 LGA in Nasarawa.
Prof Paul:
They now seek to tender certified documents of Forms EC8Bs for Keana LGA in Nasarawa.
1st Respondent:
They object to the admissibility of the documents and reserve reasons till address stage.
Prof Paul:
They'll now tender Forms EC8Cs in respect to 10 LGAs of Ebonyi State.
All Respondents:
In the usual manner, they all objected to the admissibility of the documents and shall give their reasons in their final written addresses.
Prof Paul:
They seek to tender Forms EC8Cs in respect of 18 LGAs of Edo State.
All Respondents:
Respectively, all the respondents objected to the admissibility of the documents sought to be tendered in respect of Edo State and decided to contain their reasons in final addresses.
The Court:
The bundles Certified True Copies of Forms EC8Cs in respect to 18 LGAs of Edo State are hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PAV1-18 accordingly.
Prof Paul:
The Petitioners now tender certified true copies of Forms EC8Cs in respect of 20 LGAs of Lagos State duly obtained from INEC.
All Respondents:
Counsels to all the Respondents objected to the admissibility of the documents and shall advance reasons at their address.
The Court:
The bundles Certified True Copies of Forms EC8Cs in respect to 20 LGAs of Lagos State are hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PAW1-20 accordingly.
Prof Paul:
The Petitioners now tender certified true copies of Forms EC8Cs in respect of 25 LGAs of Niger State duly obtained from INEC.
All Respondents:
Counsels all object to the admissibility of the documents and shall advance reasons at the time of final address.
The Court:
The bundles Certified True Copies of Forms EC8Cs in respect to 25 LGAs of Niger State are hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PAX1-25 accordingly.
Prof Paul:
The Petitioners now tender certified true copies of Forms EC8Cs in respect of 18 LGAs of Ondo State duly obtained from INEC.
All Respondents;
They object to the admissibility of the documents and shall advance reasons at the time of final addresses.
The Court:
The bundles Certified True Copies of Forms EC8Cs in respect to 18 LGAs of Ondo State are hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PAY1-18 accordingly.
Prof Paul:
The Petitioners now seek to tender certified true copies of Forms EC8Cs in respect of 33 LGAs of Oyo State duly obtained from INEC.
All Respondents:
The Counsels all object to the admissibility of the documents from Oyo State and shall advance reasons at theie address
The Court:
The bundles Certified True Copies of Forms EC8Cs in respect to 18 LGAs of Oyo State are hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PAZ1-33 accordingly.
Prof Paul:
The Petitioners now tender certified true copies of Forms EC8Cs in respect of 23 LGAs of Rivers State duly obtained from 1st Respondent.
All Respondents:
They unanimously object to the admissibility of Forms EC8As from Rivers and will advance reasons at address stage.
The Court:
The bundles Certified True Copies of Forms EC8Cs in respect to 23 LGAs of Rivers State are hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PAAA1-23 accordingly.
The Court:
The bundles Certified True Copies of Forms EC8Cs in respect to 20 LGAs of Sokoto State are hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PBB1-23 accordingly.
My Lord mistakenly didn't take the 4th Resp objection, says it's becoming monotonous 😂
One INEC Lawyer said he wanted to 'return the mandate' given to him by the INEC Lead Counsel to conduct proceedings...
In my mind, I said 'that's how Tinubu will return the mandate to INEC and they will issue it to the rightful owner'.
We no dey play here...
The Court:
The bundles Certified True Copies of Forms EC8Cs in respect to 16 LGAs of Ekiti State are hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PBC1-16 accordingly.
The Court:
The bundles Certified True Copies of Forms EC8Cs in respect to 25 LGAs of Delta State are hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PBD1-25 accordingly.
1st Respondent:
They object to the admissibility of the documents and shall advance reasons for objecting in their final address.
2nd and 3rd Respondents:
They object to the admissibility of all the documents and reasons will be indicated in final address.
4th Respondent:
They object to the admissibility of the documents sought to be tendered and shall provide their reasons at the time of final written address.
Aside: Sir V. @valentineozigbo just walked in, man came with another killer blue, short-sleeved, senator material. 😍😍😍
The Court:
The bundles Certified True Copies of Forms EC8Ds in respect to 35 State of the Federation and the FCT are hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PDE1-37 accordingly.
Also, the 2nd and 3rd and 4th Respondents DOES NOT OBJECT TO RHE ADMISSIBILITY OF THE DOCUMENTS.
Do you know why?
Simple, that's the document used in declaring Tinubu as President. That is why nobody is objecting... Are you witti me!?
The Court:
The bundles Certified True Copies of Form EC8DA in respect of the National Result are hereby admitted without Objection into evidence and marked as Exhibits PBF accordingly.
There are no objections from all parties to adjourn the hearing till tomorrow and the Court, have at this time 5:46pm, adjourned the matter till tomorrow Thursday June 8, 2023 at 2pm for continuation of hearing.
The lead Justice, Hon. Justice Tsammani thanks members of the bar for their cooperation and thanks members of the public for making themselves available and hope that this cooperation will continue until the day of judgment.
There's someone new in court... A right activist, political activist, lawyer and Spokesperson Southwest of the Peter Obi Campaign Team, Dele Farotimi @DeleFarotimi is in Court today...
He's on my check list of pictures today. I came late & couldn't give you all the live photos.
For the summary of yesterday and today's proceedings, in PDF and Voice-overs, keep tabs on my account and @_weyimi as we will be making them available before the end of the day.
It is presumed that the Petitioners in CA/PEPC/03/2023 will today, take a step away from INEC CTC...
of Forms EC8As and proceed to tendering documents of Forms EC8Bs, which are Ward Collated Results from the various states they will be contending in the petition.
While these are presumptions, join us in court or stay glued to know the turn out of events.
While we wait to continue the Peter Obi's case (CA/PEPC/03/2023) at the PEPT later today at 2pm, I decided to update you on all the documents submitted so far at the tribunal.
On Day 1 of the Hearing, Peter Obi tendered documents from the US District Court...
Showing evidence of the forfeiture of $460,000 by the 2nd Respondent (Tinubu).
Moving to Day 3 (1st June), Peter Obi moved to the tendering of PUBLIC DOCUMENTS duly certified by INEC. This they also did on Day 4 (2nd June).
Now let's look at these documents...
On Day 3 alone, Certified True Copies of Forms EC8A from 115 LGAs of 6 states were tendered. The states include Rivers, Benue, Cross-River, Niger, Osun and Ekiti.
All the respondents (INEC, Tinubu, Shettima and APC) objected to the tendering of each of these documents.
Mr. Saturday is in court already, even though it's a Friday. Man is looking too good to be representing the Respondent.
Anyways, I'm in court too, with my dear elder brother @realevabest, please follow him. I want to appear as Amicus Curiae today 😏😏 But I forgot my wig & gown.
- Awa Kalu SAN leads the Petitioners Team
- AB Mahmoud leads the 1st Respondent Team
- Wole Olanipekun leads the 2nd & 3rd Respondent Team
- LO Fagbemi leads the 4tg Respondents Team