Tribunal rejects EU’s report on 2023 elections tendered by Obi, LP
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC)in the ongoing judgment, rejected, a copy of the report tendered by Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) on the last presidential election made by the European Union (EU) Election Observers Mission.
It could be recalled that the actual copy of the report was earlier tendered by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) while prosecuting their petition before the court.
The tribunal held that the document was obtained by the petitioners from its registry, which was certified by its staff who is not a person with original custody of the document that was produced by the EU mission, while also rejected the 18088 blurred results sheets tendered by the petitioners on the grounds that they were not tied to any polling units to which the results related, which the petitioners failed to specify in their petition.
The court held that the petitioners lied that they could not identify the polling units because the result sheets were blurred. It noted that one of the same petitioners’ witnesses actually produced a report in which he analysed the same results, which he claimed to have sourced from INEC’s results viewing platform.
