The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) Friday, admitted as exhibits documents from six states from the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, against President Bola Tinubu’s election.
The exhibits are certified true copies of forms EC8A used in the February 25 presidential provided by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
On Thursday, Obi and his party tendered exhibits in six States comprising Rivers, Benue, Cross River, Niger, Osun, and Ekiti.
However, at Friday’s proceedings, Obi tendered exhibits in six other states including Adamawa, Bayelsa, Oyo, Edo, Lagos and Akwa Ibom.
A breakdown of the fresh exhibits showed that forms EC8A were admitted in 21 Local Government Areas of Adamawa, 8 in Local Government Areas of Bayelsa, 31 Local Government Areas of Oyo, 18 Local Government Areas of Edo, 20 Local Government Areas of Lagos and 31 Local Government Areas of Akwa Ibom.
So far, Obi and his party have tendered exhibits in twelve out of eighteen states they are challenging the election results.
Reacting, all the Respondents in the matter submitted their intentions to object to the documents at the final stage of address.
Haven exhausted the documents at their disposal for the day, Obi applied to the court to consider the admitted documents as read.
The matter has been adjourned till June 5, for the continuation of the hearing.
