Court Adjourns Sitting In Atiku’s Suit Challenging Tinubu’s Victory.

Court Adjourns Sitting In Atiku’s Suit Challenging Tinubu’s Victory.

Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has filed a lawsuit challenging the victory of President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The panel of the presidential petition tribunal sitting in Abuja's Appeal Court has postponed hearing the

The court adjourned the hearing on the petition until Tuesday, June 6 for a continuation of the hearing. The court adjourns and will reconvene at 2:00 p.m. to consider additional cases. During Monday's proceeding, Atiku presented the court with four witnesses.

 

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The first witness served as the collation officer for the PDP in Rivers State, the second is Alhaji Mohammed Madaki, the current Chairman of the PDP in the FCT, the third is Mr Abraham David, also a resident of the FCT, and the fourth is one Ibrahim Mohammed Hamza, a resident of Lafia, Nasarawa State.

 

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One of the witnesses that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar presented to the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal on Monday alleged that he signed the result document for the presidential election in his state under duress.

Ibrahim Mohammed Hamza, a resident of Lafia, Nasarawa State, testified that he signed the results sheet under duress in order to obtain a copy of the results sheet.

In addition, Hamza, a PDP agent during the election, claimed that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) result document he signed during the election lacked cancellations similar to the one presented to him in court.

 

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However, he admitted that it is his signature on the document and added that the results page had been altered after he signed it. The witness also informed the court that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) failed during the uploading of results.

 


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