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UPDATES AT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PETITION TRIBUNAL TODAY THURSDAY, 15TH JUNE 2023 (DAY 13 OF HEARING)

Good morning & welcome to Live Updates from PEPT.

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Today is a good day...

Documents can be seen making its way into the court, many amongst which are DATA ANALYSIS REPORTS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 25TH FEBRUARY.

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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. ImageImageImage
Just so you know...

Our twin television sets are in the court room.

We will be watching movies today! ImageImage
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! Image
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!

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PARTIES
- Peter Obi represents himself and the Labour Party as the Petitioners
- Saturday Monsigna represents the 4th Respondent

And now to Appearances...

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PETITIONERS LEGAL TEAM

LEAD: Dr. Livy Uzoukwu SAN
Awa Kalu SAN
Onyechi Ikpeazu SAN
PIN Ikwueto SAN
Ben Anichebe SAN
Ikechukwu Okechukwu SAN
Peter Afuba SAN
Audu Anuga SAN

Chris Garba Esq. (Mrs)
Agbo Madaki Esq.
Vincent Otaokpukpu Esq.

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1ST RESPONDENT LEGAL TEAM

LEAD: AB Mahmoud SAN
Ma... SAN
Stephen SAN
TM. Inuwa SAN
Olawale Ibrahim SAN

Nasara Auta Esq.
Wendy Kuku Esq.
Musa Ata Esq.

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2ND & 3RD RESPONDENTS LEGAL TEAM

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.

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4TH RESPONDENT LEGAL TEAM

LEAD: Lateef Fagbemi SAN
Abiodun Owonikoko SAN
Kunle Adegoke SAN
YAH Mba SAN
Mumini Hanafi SAN
Tajudeen Oladoja SAN
Saed Sanusi SAN

Japhet Obawale Esq.
Omosanya Popoola Esq.
Olarenwaju Akinsola Esq.

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Here We Go...

Let the battle begin.

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ONYECHI IKPEAZU SAN for the first time will kickstart the proceedings for the Petitioners.

For all of you flooding my DM, asking about him, you'll hear him today!

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The 4th Witness of the Petitioners PW4..
A subpoena witness is now being called by Ikpeazu SAN.

Eric Uwadiegwu will now take the oath of truth.

Put on your belts!

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Q. Tell your name?
A. Eric U.O

Q. Where do you live?
A. Awka, Anambra State

Q. What is your occupation?
A. I'm a professor of mathematics at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University.

There's an objection by AB Mahmoud.

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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.

Those are his humble prayers to the court.

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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...)

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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.

He so submits.

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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

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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.

As the court pleases.

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Q. You were served a subpoena to testify, correct?
A. Yes

Q. On 14th June 2023, you made a witness Statement at the registry of this court, correct?
A. Yes

Q. How can you identify the witness statement?
A. If I go through it, I will identify it with my signature
Wole SAN now objects to the witness statement again and they adopt their previous arguments.

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AB Mahmoud SAN also objects to the witness statement and relies on previous arguments and urges the court not to allow it.

LO Fagbemi SAN also objects and for the same reasons earlier canvassed, they urge the court to uphold their objections.

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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.

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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.

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The court asks for the views of the respondents:

AB Mahmoud SAN (INEC):
He argues that the right thing to do is to withdraw the statement on oath and re-swear it at the registry.

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All the Respondents however leaves the decision, to allow or not to allow the clarifications, at the discretion of the court.

The court rules that the Petitioners should proceed.
Q. Do you now adopt your witness statement as your evidence-in-chief?
A. Yes

Q. At paragraph 9(i)(ii)(iii) at Page 7 of your witness statement, you mentioned 3 reports.

1. Report of Data Analysis of Election (IREV Scores Investigation)...
2. Report of Data Analysis of Election Rivers State Scores Analysis.
3. Report of Data Analysis on Result of Election.

The Petitioners now seek to tender these 3 Reports through the witness.

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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.

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The Court Rules:
The Copies of 3 Reports mentioned in Paragraph 9 are hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PCD1-3 accordingly.

As the court pleases...

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They are having some difficulties tagging the Appendix to the Report and

Justice Ugo says 'This is what will make the Igbo man to say ODIEGWU'

Ikpeazu SAN responds 'My Lord, we noted everything on the Witness Statement on Oath to avoid any ODIEGWUs'
The Court will now rise for 5 Minutes to enable the proper sorting of the documents... To avoid any ODIEGWUs.

Court...

We will be back.

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We are back...

Here We Go!

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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.

As the court pleases...

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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) Image
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! 😏

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My Lords expressed displeasure for their long time on the witness and grants them 3 minutes to round up.

Ikpeazu SAN now seeks to tender the 18,088 Blurred Polling Unit Result Sheets obtained from the IREV.

Shall we now have your objections...

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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.

As the court pleases...

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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.

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4th Respondent:
They have NO objection to the LETTER but object to the SUBPOENA and will give reasons at time of address.

😂😂😂
The Court:
The subpoena ad testificandum and the letter are hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PCF1-2 respectively.

The witness will return at 9am tomorrow for the cross-examination as earlier agreed upon by parties and the court.

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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.

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Ikwueto SAN informs the court that the next witness is brought on subpoena from Arise TV @ARISEtv

The Witness is PW5. He now affirms.

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Q. Tell the court your full name.
A. My name is Lummie Edevbie

The Court requests to know if the witness can be taken before 1pm.

Q. Tell the Court where you live.
A. F2 Victoria Garden Estate, Jahi Abuja.

Q. What do you do for a living?
A. I work at AriseNews
Q. You have a subpoena to appear before this court today?
A. Yes

Q. The subpoena was not served on you personally.
A. That's correct

Q. To whom was 5he subpoena served?
A. To my organization

Q. Do you have a copy of the subpoena with you?
A. I do

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(he provides the copy of 5he subpoena and Ikwueto SAN now seeks to tender it in evidence)

ALL RESPONDENTS:
They do not object to the subpoena.

The Court:
The copy of subpoena is hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PCG accordingly.

As the court pleases...
Q. On the subpoena being served on your organization, do you have any ID card to show that you work there?
A. Yes

(He now provides his ID card and Ikwueto SAN seeks to tender it, noting that he will make a copy and replace it with the Card later)

ALL RESPONDENTS
NO OBJECTIONS!
The Court:
The Copy of the Staff ID Card of PW5 is hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PCG1 accordingly.

The court adds that a copy of the Card be made and original returned.

As the court pleases...

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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.

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Ikwueto SAN replies that the responses made in earlier situation and will also refer the court to its arguments in the final address.

The Court:
They reserve their ruling.

As the court pleases...

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Q. In your written address, you mentioned a flash drive in Paragraph 5,6,7,8,9 of the WSO. Do you have it?
A. Yes

(He produces the drives & Ikwueto now applies it to be admitted)

ALL RESPONDENTS:
They all object to the admissibility of the drives and reserve reasons for later.
The Court:
The Flash Drive is hereby admitted into evidence and marked as Exhibits PCG2 accordingly.

As the court pleases...

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Q. You already told the court you want your statement adopted as your witness statement oath, is this the document?
A. (he views it and respond) Yes

Ikwueto SAN now applies to the court for the video, being the content of the flash drive to be played in open court.
1st Respondent:
They have no objections as they also want to watch the film.

The other Respondents also do not object since there's a standing precedence.

My glasses are now on and the court says 'at least we should watch it for lunch'

My popcorn and drinks are close. Image
The about 3 Minutes 'Movie' is now being played...

The video shows Prof. Yakubu Mahmoud addressing audience in Chatham House where he's recorded.

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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.

Lemme ask her name very quickly 😜

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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.

😜😜😜

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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.

I thank you all too and God bless you.

See you tomorrow

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However, I'm worried that Peter Obi now comes to court earlier than me... I'm beginning to feel like I'm not serious about this my mandate.

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Well, 38 minutes away from 3pm, and the Justices are here...

COURT!

HERE WE GO!

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Since @NaaYouSabi brought this tweet to my attention...

The position argued by @ipcjustice is not the correct position of the law.

As far as the 10th Assembly have not taken office (June 13th), the 9th Assembly remain the legitimate legislature to make laws in Nigeria.
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.
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