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Zoom in... What do you see?
18,088 Blurred documents obtained from the IREV... Omashe ooo
Anyways, Peter Obi is back in court after being absent for two hearings. On his left is Julius Abure; Audie Mohammed and Dudu Manuga can be seen seated.
Smiles everywhere in the building.
Just so you know...
Our twin television sets are in the court room.
We will be watching movies today!
It's 9:41am and my Lords are here... The court will now seat in the matter of PETER OBI & ANOR. V INEC & ORS. with Petition Number CA/PEPC/03/2023.
Court...
Here We Go!
Justice Adah welcomes everyone to the proceedings of today and thanks everyone for the cooperation do far.
And from me UC Maxwell @UkomahM, I say thank you for your commitment to the activities of the court. Bless you all!
LEAD: Wole Olanipekun SAN
Akin Olujimi SAN
Yusuf Ali SAN
Ukala SAN
Taiwo SAN
Abiodun SAN
Olatunji Busari SAN
A. Mustapha SAN
Babatunde SAN
S. Adebayo SAN
A. Marvel Esq.
Ibrahim Audu Esq.
Akintola Makinde Esq.
He notifies the court that he's just served this morning with the witness statement on oath in court. He claims that he and his team are handicapped as to how to proceed this morning since he does not have any documents prior to now.
He notes that if the Petitioners wish to...
continue with the witness, they should step him down and allow them time to look at the documents.
Wole Olanipekun SAN:
He also notes that they were just served with the WSO this morning.
He appreciates the comments of the 1st Respondent Counsel (AB Mahmoud SAN) as to they being handicapped and they pray the court to stand down the matter for a few minutes as suggested by...
AB Mahmoud SAN (at this point, AB Mahmoud interjects that he didn't request for few minutes. That the rules are clear that they require 48 hours notice with documents).
The Court asks him which rules makes a requirement of 48 hours.
AB Mahmoud SAN responds that the Pre-Hearing
Report as issued by the Court and the Federal High Court Rules.
(They are trying to make recourse to the basis of this point, the Justices are exchanging words between themselves...)
Wole SAN finally notes that in the alternative, they (Petitioners) can take the witness while they, the respondents, will do their cross-examination later in time.
LO Fagbemi SAN:
He also notes that he was served the WSO a few minutes before the court sat, however, he'll align himself with the submission of Wole SAN, subject to the convenience of the court, the witness can adopt his statement but he'll be cross-examined later
Dr. Ikpeazu SAN:
He notes that he's fine with the witness adopting his Statement while cross-examination can be deferred to a later time.
AB Mahmoud SAN now notes that he won't have any objections to the witness adopting his Statement now if cross-examination will be deferred.
Ikpeazu SAN:
He notifies the court that they got the subpoena late and the reasons they couldn't file yesterday. He apologizes and notes that, if it is within the courts convenience, they can stand down the cross-examination for an hour or 2 instead of leaving it till another day
The Court Rules:
Having heard all counsels, it will serve the best interest of Justice for the witness taken today and the cross-examination for tomorrow.
Back to Dr Ikpeazu SAN, he adopts the Petitioners previous response and adds the provisions of Order 3, Rule 3, Sub 3 of the Federal High Court Civil Procedure Rules which is categorical that a witness under subpoena be given Form 1A and is mandated to provide a witness Statement
The Court will reserve it's ruling at the time of final judgement.
Q. Do you adopt the WSO as your evidence to the court?
A. Can I sight it...
(He is given the documents and he requests to make clarifications from the document)
The court notes that he can only adopt it and not make clarifications to the WSO.
Dr. Ikpeazu notes that since he has not adopt it, he can make clarifications. The court obliged.
The witness corrects a paragraph in the WSO, instead of (see table 3 of Rivers State score documents) it will be replaced with (see table 2 of Benue State score documents).
The court notes that this is not a clarification but an amendment and this is supposed to be done at the registry where the witness statement on oath was taken.
Ikpeazu SAN is trying to convince the court that it's just that correction to the line in the document.
The witness have identified these documents and copies of the documents are being made available to all the respondents before we take their Objections.
The court asks if he is a star/expert witness... But Ikpeazu SAN notifies the court that he is on subpoena.
Ikpeazu SAN notifies the court that in the spirit of kindness, they made copies for the respondents. But the court asks him not to introduce new spirits in court. 😂
OBJECTIONS
1st Respondent:
They object to the documents and shall advance reasons at the time of final address.
2nd and 3rd Respondents:
They object to the admissibility of the documents and shall advance reasons at the address stage.
4th Respondent:
They also object to the admissibility of the documents and will advance reasons at address stage.
The Court Rules:
The Copies of 3 Reports along with the Appendixes mentioned in Paragraph 9 are hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PCD1-3 accordingly.
Q. In Paragraph 5B(b) at Page 3 of your Witness Statement, you mentioned 18,088 Blurred Polling Unit Result Sheets from IREV. If shown, can you identify them?
A. Yes
(The witness is now shown the box of blurred polling unit result sheets from IREV)
Wole SAN is now asking the status of the witness whether he is an ordinary witness, star witness and moon witness for the purposes of timing him.
Me: My Lord, the witness is from the METAVERSE, and in the METAVERSE my Lords, there is no time. We move! 😏
1st Respondent:
They object and will give their full reasons at the time of the address.
2nd and 3rd Respondents:
They object to the admissibility and will give their reasons in their address.
4th Respondent:
They also object and will give reasons at the time of address.
The Court:
The bundles of 18,088 BLURRED POLLING UNIT RESULT SHEETS FROM IREV in 4 Buckets are hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PCE1-4 accordingly.
Q. You referred to a letter written to you by the 2nd Petitioner (LP) and a subpoena issued to you in your statement, issued to you, do you have them?
A. Yes
(He now produces a letter (of engagement and request to carry out data analysis) and Ikpeazu SAN now seeks to tender)
1st Respondent:
They have NO objection to the subpoena but object to the letter and will give reasons.
2nd and 3rd Respondents:
They have NO objection to the subpoena but object to the letter and will give reasons.
Dr. Livy now informs the court that the Petitioners still have one witness to call before the court. He now defers to PIN Ikwueto SAN to conduct the proceedings.
Looks like it's that stage where you order your popcorns.
Q. Following that Subpoena, you filed a witness statement on oath. Do you adopt it?
A. Yes
Objections
2nd and 3rd Respondents:
They object to the adoption of the Witness Statement on Oath
1st Respondent:
They align and also object and rely on additional authorities to be cited.
4th Respondent:
They also object to the witness deposition being allowed for reasons to be given in accordance with the objections in respect of similar applications.
He's recorded to have said that 'election result will be made available for public viewing on the IREV which have been a demand by public'
He notes that the uploading of polling unit results have been deployed on 125 constituencies. notes that the IREV is their biggest archive.
He further notes that presiding officers have been asked to compare results to be announced with what have been uploaded online in previous election and he confirms 99.9% accuracy.
Me: go and read Section 65(4) of the Electoral Act 2022😂😂😂
That's all for the video.
How did my 3 bags of Popcorn finish for a 3 minutes video...did o eat one bag per minute or this beautiful law student to my right joined me.
The court brings the proceedings to an end and adjourns till tomorrow Friday June 16, 2023 at 9am.
Ikwueto SAN notified the court that there are two recordings and only one have been played. The other will be played tomorrow from another Television House.
Justice Bello thanks everyone for the sustained cooperation of the morning session. He also thanks the staff of the court and wished those leaving journey mercies.
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