The presidential election petition court (PEPC) has received 118 exhibits from Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) nominee, to support his case against President Bola Tinubu.
After receiving 8,794,726 votes, Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, was declared the victor of the election on February 25.
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PDP and Atiku, who were upset with the outcome, went before the tribunal to contest Tinubu’s victory on a number of different grounds.
Among several issues raised, the petitioners alleged that Tinubu “was not duly elected by the majority of lawful votes cast at the election”.
They also alleged that the president “was at the time of the election, not qualified to contest”.
The petitioners further alleged inconsistencies in Tinubu’s age and school certificates.
At the commencement of the hearing on Tuesday, Atiku tendered his first set of exhibits before the court through one of his lawyers, Eyitayo Jegede.
Documents tendered in evidence before a five-member panel of the court included certified copies of the results of the presidential election from the 36 states of the federation and the federal capital territory (FCT).
The petitioners also tendered printouts of data they obtained from the bimodal voter accreditation system (BVAS) and a record of the number of permanent voter cards (PVC) used for the election across the 36 states and FCT.
They were admitted in evidence.
All the respondents in the matter told the court that they would reserve their objections to any of the documents, till their final written address.
The petitioners did not call any witnesses.
