Inibehe Effiong, a lawyer and social critic, has urged Nigerians not to panic over INEC’s objections to the acceptance of documents at the current proceedings at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, calling them a distraction.
According to Effiong, the INEC’s objection documents were properly certified, and the Court would take action as a result.
The legal expert stated on Thursday that “the Electoral Commission’s neutrality is a mirage, especially in electoral litigations” in a post on his verified Twitter account.
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He claimed that the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the other Respondents had essentially synchronized their defense strategies.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, President Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the INEC opposed on Wednesday to the admission of some documents that Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate, wanted to submit as proof.https://dailypost.ng/2023/06/01/tinubu-apc-inec-oppose-admission-of-atikus-documents-in-evidence/
At the Presidential Election lawsuit Court in Abuja’s resumed hearing of the lawsuit filed by Atiku and the PDP contesting the election of President Tinubu, the petitioners’ attorney, Mr. Chris Uche, SAN, announced that the team had prepared a second schedule of papers to be tendered.
A few of the documents that the petitioners submitted as proof were certified true copies of Form EC8A that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had retrieved from its Result Viewing Portal (IREV).
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The Form EC8A was for eight Bayelsa local government areas, 23 Kaduna State local government areas, 20 Ogun local government areas, and 23 Kogi local government areas.
Sheets called Form EC8As are used to collect results at the level of voting units.
However, Mr. Kemi Pinhero, SAN, the counsel for INEC, raised an objection to the acceptance of all documents pertaining to the Kogi Local Government Areas, with the exception of those from Olamaboro, Ofu, Omala, Okehi, and Ajaokuta.
He said that this was the case because the petitioners’ pleadings expressly stated the five municipal governments whose documents he did not challenge.
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Apart from the states of Kogi, Rivers, and Sokoto, Pinhero also objected to the documents pertaining to the BVAS being admissible.
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