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Presidential Tribunal admits presidential result declared by INEC as exhibit

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Monday admitted the final result declared by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the Feb.23 general election as an exhibit.

INEC Boss, Mahmood Yakubu (Punch)

Also admitted in evidence, was a document containing bio-data of president Muhammadu Buahri submitted to the electoral body.

The chairman of the tribunal also admitted a document containing the total number of registered voters and collected Permanent Voters Cards used in the election.

The receipt of payment dated March 24 and acknowledgment letter issued by the Director of Legal Services of the commission in respect of the above document were also admitted as evidence.

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NAN reports that a total of six national dailies were tendered by the petitioners and admitted as evidence by the tribunal.

The national dailies were listed to include: Daily Trust (Feb.8, 2019); Vanguard (Feb.19, 2019); Nigerian Tribune (Feb.20, 2019) Thisday (Feb.24, 2019); and Sunday Tribune (Feb.24, 2019); as well as Vanguard dated March 26, 2019.

The receipt obtained from the National Library in respect of the certified newspapers was also admitted in evidence.

Meanwhile, another set of result sheets from Zamfara and Kano totaling 6,806 were admitted as additional evidence from the petitioners.

The petitioners on July 4 tendered a total of 31, 371 documents comprising election results sheets from wards, polling units and Local Government Areas from 10 states.

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The states were Niger; Yobe; Katsina; Kebbi; Borno; Jigawa; Gombe; Bauchi; and Kaduna.

Similarly, Alhaji Buba Galadima, a petitoners’ witness in his evidence in chief, told the tribunal that he was the National Chairman of the Reformed All Progressive Congress (rAPC).

He also said his party had a Memorandum of Understanding with the PDP to elect a credible person as president of the country.

In his testimony, Galadima said he voted in his polling unit and thereafter went to monitor the election across the country from the PDP situation room in Abuja.

He said the election was marred by malpractices to favour the second respondent.

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He also said Buhari was obliged to make public his West African Examination Council result, adding that he (Buhari) failed to annex the document on his nomination form.

Galadima explained that he was close associate of the second respondent (Buhari) and had supported his presidential election in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015 without reservations.

Galadima, however explained that he backed up from supporting him when issues around his qualification were raised.

I wanted to support an educated candidate who can provide good governance for the country,’’, he said.

Mr Ijeoma Obi, a Registered Area Technician employed by INEC, also invited by the petitioners to testify, said he was employed by INEC to monitor the function of the card readers in some polling units with the view to transmitting results to the commission’s server.

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Obi explained that results from all the polling units he was deplored were sent to the server.

When crossed examined however, Obi failed to substantiate is claims by failing to give the code number used in sending the results to the acclaimed server.

Similarly, Adejuyitan Olanikan, another acclaimed Registered Area Technician employed by INEC said results were transmitted to the commission’s server but also failed to state how that was done.

NAN reports that the petitioners have 400 witnesses to testify within 10 days

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