A candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi has tendered 136 additional exhibits to support his claim at the Presidential Election Petition Court,
A candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi has tendered 136 additional exhibits to support his claim at the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja,
The exhibits were admitted in evidence by Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel on Friday.
The states the court admitted their presidential election results contained in Forms EC8A, were; Adamawa, Bayelsa, Oyo, Edo, Lagos and Akwa Ibom.
Obi, who came third in the presidential election, told the court that the results he tendered in evidence, were certified true copies he obtained from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
He had on Thursday, tendered results of the election from 115 Local Government Areas, LGAs, in Rivers, Niger, Benue, Cross River, Osun, Ekiti.
At the resumed proceedings on Friday, the petitioners, obtained permission from the court to submit additional results from six LGAs in Rivers State, which were admitted and marked as Exhibits PB 16 to PB 21.
INEC, opposed the admissibility of the additional results from Rivers State, which it said were “strange” to it.
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