The petition of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar against President Bola Tinubu was on Wednesday, struck out by the Presidential Election Petitions Court.
The petition alleged that Tinubu owns dual citizenship.
Justice Stephen Adah after taking over from Justice Haruna Tsammani struck out the evidence and documents tendered after a review.
He struck out the evidence of some of Atiku’s witnesses because their witness statements on oath were not filed along with his petition.
The court also expunged 37 exhibits tendered by the witnesses from the court’s records.
Justice Adah held that dumping of documents on the court would go to the weight to be attached to such evidence.
On the issue of Tinubu’s conviction and the issue of his dual citizenship, the Tribunal again held like it earlier did that these issues were incompetent and liable to be struck out and same were indeed struck out.
After this, Justice Adah handed over to Justice Tsammani, the leader of the five-man panel, who then proceeded to deal with the main petition.
The court spelled out four grounds for determination.
On the inability of the election officers to transmit, of the 27 witnesses called by the petitioner, 10 were polling unit agents who testified as to how the elections were conducted in their different polling units.
All 10 of the witnesses testified that the voting went well and was peaceful in their different polling units but they all said they could not upload results electronically to the portal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), so they entered the results manually and took same to the ward and or state collation center.
The witnesses were emphatic that voting went well, party agents signed the results but the only difficulty was in uploading the results electronically.
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