Presidential Tribunal: Labour Party tenders electoral documents from Rivers, Osun, Benue, others
The Labour Party, on Thursday, tendered electoral documents (form EC8As) before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja.
President Bola Tinubu, the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), opposed tendering of the documents, stating that they will state their reasons at the time of address.
However, Labour Party’s request was backed by the tribunal, agreeing to adopt the documents despite the respondents’ opposition.
The six states are Rivers, Benue, Cross River, Niger, Osun and Ekiti.
The Labour Party had earlier revealed that it would be tendering electoral documents from 18 states but did only for six states on Thursday, having used up their allotted time in court.
The tribunal had earlier complained about the disorganisation of the Labour Party over the scheduling of documents during the course of the hearing, even after adjourning the case from Wednesday until Thursday.
Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani informed Awa Kalu, the lead counsel for LP, that irrespective of their time being up, they would have allowed them to continue further but they were not organised. He, therefore, adjourned the case until June 2 for further hearing.
We have recently deactivated our website's comment provider in favour of other channels of distribution and commentary. We encourage you to join the conversation on our stories via our Facebook, Twitter and other social media pages.
More from Peoples Gazette
Politics
Katsina youths pledge to deliver over 2 million votes to Atiku
“Katsina State is Atiku’s political base because it is his second home.”
World
Russia accuses U.S. of spying with Apple mobile devices
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said there was close cooperation between Apple and the U.S. national intelligence community.
NationWide
Nigerians, not politicians, to blame for fuel scarcity: Lawyer
The U.S.-based lawyer said that the increase was artificial and caused by Nigerians themselves, not politicians.
Politics
Atiku, PDP present first witnesses to testify against Tinubu, APC, INEC
The witnesses are a pharmacist and an INEC collation officer, a chartered accountant and INEC collation officer and a legislator and legal practitioner.
Anti-Corruption
EFCC questions Kayode Fayemi over N4 billion loot
Sources said that the ex-governor arrived at the Ilorin Zonal Command of the commission at about 10:00 a.m. on Thursday.
Opinion
Azu Ishiekwene: Tinubu biting the bullet from day one
Petrol subsidy is gone, means petrol subsidy is gone. Anything short of saying so on day one would have amounted to kicking the can down the road again.
Kano
NSCDC parades eight suspected cable vandals, phone snatchers in Kano
The command said that it had set up a special squad to fight against phone snatching.
