The Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Monday, again accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC of frustrating its petition challenging the result of the February 25 presidential election.
Their lawyer, Jubrin Okutepa (SAN), complained to the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja, that INEC has refused to provide all the documents the legal team requested.
He said and I quote “We are bringing this to your notice for your intervention because we have done everything humanly possible.
“These documents were certified since May 29. We have severally written letters detailing the documents we needed in the proof of our petition.” END QUOTE
Barrister Okutepa claimed that despite that his clients had since paid the necessary fees demanded by INEC for the documents, the electoral umpire had refused to make them available.
But INEC’s lawyer, A.B. Mahmoud (SAN), insisted that the commission never denied the petitioners of any document.”
He explained that all the documents being tendered by the subpoenaed witnesses are from INEC.
Consequently, the five-man panel, led by Justice Tsammani, adjourned to Tuesday for the cross-examination of the witness and further hearing of the petition.
