Posted by Atiku Abubakar, the PDP’s presidential candidate, accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of preventing the prosecution of his case from moving forward on Wednesday.
On Wednesday in Abuja, Atiku complained before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, that the commission had not made the documents available despite his paying N6.69 million for certified true copies of the documents he intended to provide as evidence.
Speaking through his attorney, Mr. Chris Uche, SAN, the petitioner said he found it disheartening that the commission claimed some of the documents they paid for were located outside of Abuja.
We believed that we would have access to all of these documents and wouldn’t need to travel to the United States to obtain them.
The only documents the commission had made available for the day were those for 10 out of Kogi’s 21 local government areas, which Uche then submitted as certified true copies.
The petitioners also submitted Anambra state’s form EC8D.
According to NAN, Atiku Abubakar requested that the PEPC certify him as the winner of the election in Nigeria or, in the alternative, declare the vote invalid and order a new election because of alleged irregularities that plagued the vote on February 25 in tens of thousands of polling places.
These are a few of the seven prayers he included in his petition challenging the election of Bola Tinubu as president-elect of the All Progressives Congress, or APC, on the basis of five different arguments.