COUNSELS:
- Dr. Livy Uzoukwu SAN leads the Petitioners Team
- Dr. Kemi Pinhero SAN leads the 1st Respondent Team
- Chief Akin Olujimi SAN leads the 2nd and 3rd Respondents Team
- Afolabi Fashanu SAN leads the 4th Respondent Team
The Court:
Before we proceed, the court will now deliver our ruling on the application vide a motion where the Petitioners moved the court on issues of interrogatories on the first respondent.
The Lead Justice, Hon. J. Haruna Tsammani have now considered all the arguments by the parties and rules that the application to serve Interrogatories on the 1st Respondent is hereby DENIED, for not moving their motion and filing out of time.
Q: You made reference in your Witness Statement on Oath-WSO about your Identity Card showing you work with Channels, where is it and can I see it?
A. It's here with me (he now presents his ID card)
JS Okutekpa SAN just informs the court that he is an ordinary witness, not a Star
JS Okutekpa SAN now applies to tender the ID Card and that where it is admitted, a coloured photocopy be substituted so that he can go with it.
This is the video where Yakubu Mahmoud assures Nigeria that there's no going back on the transmission of results REAL-TIME from the election venue and no going back on the use of BVAS for accreditation and upload.
Tinubu is heard in the Video saying the place holder, Aminu Masari, have dropped and he has picked Kashim Shettima as his running mate for the presidential election.
The Lead Justice expresses displeasure that lawyers are in court and chewing gum. He notes that, apart from delivering judgment in the case, they would give a conduct report on the entire proceedings.
Petitioners:
They'll now start with the tendering of Certified True Copies of Form EC40G for 7 LGAs of Benue State in evidence.
Ukum
Katsina-Ala
Agatu
Ado
Tarka
Gwer East
1st Respondent:
They object to the admissibility of the documents and shall advance their reasons at the time of final address.
2nd and 3rd Respondents:
They also object and will advance reasons at time of final address.
4th Respondent:
They equally object on the same grounds.
The Court:
The bundles Certified True Copies of Forms EC40G PU in respect to 6 LGAs of Benue State are hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PBJ1-6 accordingly.
The Court: notes that they will admit all the EC40G1 together because of time. The Petitioners will now proceed to tender the other documents in the same series.
The Certified True Copies of Forms EC40G and EC840G1 in respect to Ado LGA of Benue State is hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PBJ7-8 accordingly.
What the law envisages in Section 58 CFRN is that, for a bill to become law, there must be concurrence of both the Senate and the House of Reps. That is, the bill must be passed concurrently by both houses of NASS.
Once the president signs this bill, it becomes law.
In simpler terms, 3 structures makes a bill become law.
- Senate must pass the bill
- House of Reps must pass the bill
- President must sign the bill
Where these three play this role, a bill will become a law, passed and assented to.
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.