The presidential election petitions tribunal on Monday granted the application of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to tender 48 video clips.<\/p>\n
Chris Uche, counsel to the petitioners, made the application to tender the video clips in support of the petition challenging the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari as winner of February presidential election.<\/p>\n
But the respondents \u2013 Independent National Electoral Commission, Buhari, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) \u2013 objected to the application. Alex Izinyon, Buhari\u2019s lawyer, described the move as an \u201cambush,” adding that \u201cYour lordship they are not part of the documents listed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Uztaz Usman, INEC counsel, argued that the presentation of the witness and evidence was not part of what the lawyers agreed on.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat the media will be reporting will be another thing. We were taken by surprise. This does not comply with first schedule of evidence act,\u201d Usman had said.<\/p>\n
Thereafter, the tribunal stood down for 1 hour 30 minutes to decide on the ruling. Upon, resumption, the five-man panel of judges led by Mohammed Garba granted the request of the petitioners.<\/p>\n
The panel held that \u201cno specific evidence is excluded from being tendered as an evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The presidential election petitions tribunal on Monday granted the application of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to tender 48 video clips. Chris Uche, counsel to the petitioners, made the application to tender the video clips in support of the petition challenging the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari as winner of February presidential election. But the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":98539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2,4],"tags":[32,163,51,20554],"yoast_head":"\n