, has given reasons for opposing the tendering of many certified electoral documents brought to court by Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi to prove their case against President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the last presidential election.
The pair, who filed separate petitions to challenge Mr Tinubu’s victory, alleged that the 25 February presidential poll was marred by widespread fraud. However, at the commencement of the trial on 30 May, INEC’s lawyer, Abubakar Mahmoud, and Mr Tinubu’s lawyer, Wole Olanipekun,APC’s lawyer, Lateef Fagbemi, equally opposed the admissibility of the documents as exhibits.At Friday’s proceedings, one of INEC’s lawyers, Kemi Pinheiro, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria , explained that the petitioners – Atiku and Mr Obi, did not challenge the conduct of the election in the areas relating to the documents that were presented before the court.
Specifically, the INEC lawyer accused Mr Obi and the Labour Party of mixing up issues by bringing result sheets from places where they did not dispute the election outcome.
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