The Presidential Election Petitions Court has adjourned until Friday, this week, for continuation of pre-hearing in the petition against the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, by the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
When the matter came up for hearing, counsel for the Labour Party, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu informed the court that the scheduled meeting to agree on documents to be tendered for hearing hadn’t yielded results as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had only made available 30% of the documents required from them.
Counsel to the respondents said counsel for the petitioners walked out on them at the meeting and that only documents certified by INEC would be accepted by them.
Following the failure of parties in the petition to agree on documents among other reasons, the 5-Man Panel of Justices, led by Justice Haruna Tsammani adjourned the matter.
Reacting after the proceeding, the lead counsel, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu argued that INEC should stop parading itself as a political candidate adding that the money that was required of them to pay for the inspection of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System was exorbitant.
Also briefing journalists, the factional National Chairman of the Labour Party, Alhaji Lamidi Apapa advised the Presidential Candidate of the Party, Mr. Peter Obi to obey the rule of law adding that it was wrong of him to accord respect to Mr. Julius Abure in-spite of the order of the court that suspended him as the chairman of the court.
He therefore appealed to Obi to be open minded, neutral, and objective so as to be able to stop the crisis.
