The Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, submitted 337 documents to the Presidential Election Petitions Court in Abuja on Wednesday, disputing the declaration of President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.
The PDP and Atiku informed the court at the resumed hearing in the case that the documents in evidence related to 33 states of the federation, with the exception of Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, and Lagos states.
Their legal team was led by Chief Chris Uche (SAN).
The results of the presidential elections in the states of Abia, Bayelsa, Kaduna, and Ogun were among the documents that Atiku presented to the court.
The petitioners informed the court that INEC had downloaded the certified results, which were included in Forms EC8A, from its I-Rev webpage.
However, the petition’s respondents raised a dispute about whether the certified true copies of the papers submitted to the court should be allowed to be admitted into evidence.
In their final written addresses, they promised to explain their objections.
Through a group of attorneys led by Chief Wole Olanikpekun (SAN), Tinubu raised objections to the disclosure of data that the petitioners claimed had been taken from the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System devices that were employed to conduct the 2023 presidential election.
Also, the Independent National Electoral Commission stated that while it disagreed with the documents’ admissibility, it agreed with the printout of data from the BVAS it had deployed to Kogi, Sokoto, and Rivers.
Similar to this, the APC objected to the documents presented as evidence.
Additionally, the INEC legal team, chaired by Kemi Pinhero, SAN, disagreed with the validity of the downloaded results, much like other respondents did.
The records from the BVAS were nonetheless accepted by the five-person PEPC panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani and designated as Exhibits PT 1 to PT 33.
The PDP and Atiku submitted a total of 337 exhibits, which were accepted by the tribunal.
