The court resumes sitting with the hearing of the petition by PDP and Atiku.
Addressing the court, the petitioner’s (Atiku’s) counsel, Chris Uche, tenders certified true copies of INEC election results from 10 LGAs in Kogi State which are available to them.
He also informs the court that he will tender other documents of the first respondent (INEC) as well as other official witnesses he has subpoenaed.
Counsel to the first respondent (INEC) registers his objection to the admissibility of the documents but promised to give reason when addressing the court. The counsel to the second and third respondents give the same response.
The court subsequently admits the documents.
Counsel to the petitioners informs the court that despite paying N6,690,000, INEC is asking them to get the remnants of documents needed from their state offices. He promised to get the documents before Friday.
He therefore asked the court for permission to proceed with the calling of their first witness for the day.
Ndubuisi Nwobu, the Chairman of PDP Anambra State, steps into the witness box.
The witness in his testimony claims he signed the Form EC8A, when he realised that without doing so, he would not be given a copy of the result sheet.
Counsel to INEC, Abubakar Mahmoud, objects to the calling of witnesses whose statements have not been presented to the court, saying he needs time to go through the statements.
The court adjourns hearing of PDP’s petition till tomorrow, following objections by the counsel to INEC, Tinubu and APC who requested some time to study the statements of witnesses to be called by the counsel to the petitioners, Chris Uche.