Below are some additional matter arising from the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) today, June 23, 2023:
@King_Inspires:
PDP witness gave APC lawyers a run for their money today:
OLANIPEKUN (SAN): This Guinean passport Expired in 2020.
WITNESS: The data page expired and not the citizenship. Tinubu is still their citizen.
Meanwhile, according to @King_Inspires, “a forensic expert proved with evidence that INEC has wiped presidential data on BVAS. The question remains, ‘what is INEC hiding?'”
Dr. El Mo @Drelmoatiku:
Unbelievable!!! Interim President Bola Tinubu’s fake NYSC exemption letter bears the name “TINUBU BOLA ADEKUNLE”
When “Tinubu graduated from Chicago State University,” in 1979, as he claimed, there was nothing like the NYSC exemption letter. NYSC exemption letter was introduced in 1985.
READ:
In accordance with the National Youth Service Corps Decree 1993 section 2 subsection (1), it is stipulated that “With effect from 1st August, 1985, a person shall NOT be called upon to serve in the service corps if, at the date of graduation or obtaining his diploma or other professional qualification”:
- He is over the age of thirty (30) years
- He has served in the Armed Forces of the Federation or the Nigeria Police Force for a period of more than nine months; or
- He is a member of staff of any of the following:
- The Nigerian Security Organization or
- The State Security Service, or
- The National Intelligence Agency or
- The Defense Intelligence Service
- He has been conferred with any national honor.
These categories of persons are therefore exempted from service and issued with the Certificates of Exemption.
The documents were made available by INEC to @Atiku as part of the remaining documents requested via subpoena, and they have been admitted in evidence by the presidential tribunal. End of the road for Tinubu.
Chief Ikukuoma @IkukuomaC:
Atiku Abubakar witness told the Court that he obtained a transcript that was issued in 1977 by South West College USA. That established that the Tinubu that attended Chicago State University was a woman and not man. It is finished·
Pearls @MissPearls:
Brief summary of PEPT proceedings for today (Friday June 23rd , 2023)
— Proceedings began at about 4:30pm
— Dr Livy Uzoukwu SAN, led LP’s counsel team while Ikechukwu Ezechueku SAN, led proceedings
— HE Peter Obi was absent and Party appearance were Comrade Ladi Iliya (LP Deputy Nat Chair) & Chris Maigida (Dep Dir, Legal Services for APC)
— Yunusa Tanko, who was examined in chief yesterday was called up and was cross examined by all respondents (INEC, Tinubu/Shettima, APC). Highlights of his cross examination were:
- He is the chief spokesperson for LP’s PCC and Dir of Media for LP
- On Feb 25th 2023, he voted in his Polling Unit (PU) in Gawaki, Abuja, after which he went to the LP situation room. He was a PU agent.
- He had been previously involved in a court case involving INEC & LP. The document of this case was to be tendered but was objected to by Dr Livy Uzoukwu , respondents did not object, court admitted and tagged it as an exhibited.
- An exhibit, which is a Fed High Court ruling, which summarily says INEC is at liberty to decide whether to collate results manually or electronically was tendered and Yunusa Tanko said he isn’t aware of the ruling.
- A PU result was pulled out for Tanko to read to the court but he couldn’t, stating that it was blurred & mutilated in it’s entirety.
- He went on to tell the court that LP had a total of 133,00 PU agents and there were 176,974 PU units but had some agents from other parties like ADC.
- He left NCP and joined LP before Peter Obi and primaries held on 30th May, 2023.
- LP won in his PU and came 3rd Nationwide; They won 5 SouthEastern States & Anambra with 95.7% votes. LP also won 12 states Nationwide but would have been more it votes were properly counted.
- On unlawful votes allocated to Tinubu, he said the expert witness, Chibuike Ugboke, had spoken on it and he (Yunusa) didn’t check them.
- He confirmed several documents and dates received but admitted that some were not tendered due to time but may be done subsequently.
- He affirmed that some of the issues brought to court are about transmission, ballot box snatching/violence and double nomination. APC responded that a judgement has been made on double nomination; they tendered the judgment, was objected to, but court admitted and tagged it as an exhibit.
— Another Witness , Emmanuel Yaro (PW11) who served as a Presiding Officer of a PU was called up
Highlights:
- The adoption of this witness was objected to by respondents and reasons will be given in final address but his subpoena was not objected to.
- At first, Witness didn’t say whether he had issues during voter accreditation or not but later said he successfully used BVAS to accredit. Results were counted and recorded but there were issues uploading them. He reported to his supervisor who told him to take it to the collation centre . He signed results manually and party agents also signed and had their copies.
- There was no reexamination by respondents.
— Proceedings ended at about 7:45pm and adjourned till Monday July 3rd 2023.
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