Atiku, Tinubu agree not to object INEC’s documents at Presidential Election Petition Court

Atiku, Tinubu agree not to object INEC’s documents at Presidential Election Petition Court

 The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, and the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, have
agreed not to kick against all documents that emanated from the Independent
National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the conduct of the February 25 presidential
election.

 

The documents must, however, be certified as true reflection
of the original copies in line with the provisions of the law guiding
admissibility of documents.

 

These resolutions were conveyed to the 5-man panel of
Justices of the Presidential Election Petition Court hearing the joint petition
of Atiku and PDP challenging the declaration of Tinubu as winner of the
disputed election.

 

Chief Chris Uche SAN, leading the legal team for Atiku
conveyed the decisions of the lawyers to the Court at Thursday’s proceedings.

 

Tinubu, represented by legal luminary, Chief Wole Olanipekun
SAN and other lawyers, corroborated the position of Atiku not to object to all
certified documents from the electoral body.

 

The senior lawyers said they jointly agreed to allow the
documents to be freely scrutinized by the Court in order to arrive at just and
fair conclusions in their judgment.

 

Leader of the legal team for the All Progressives Congress,
APC, Prince Lateef Fagbemi SAN confirmed the same position to the Court.

 

He explained that they agreed to the decisions to allow the
documents be tendered unhindered to make hearing of Atiku’s petition seamless.

 

The electoral body, through its counsel, Mr Abubakar
Balarabe Mahmoud, said that his client would be ready to make all the required
documents available at the appropriate time as a way of ensuring speedy and
expeditious hearing of all the petitions challenging the presidential election.

 

Details later.

Source: Atiku, Tinubu agree not to object INEC’s documents at Presidential Election Petition Court

 - NigerianEye

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