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VIDEO: With Peter Obi’s Evidence In Court, Tinubu Should Be Worried – Paul Uwadima
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory in the 2023 presidential election is been challenged at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory in the 2023 presidential election is been challenged at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja.
VerseNews Nigeria reported that Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) alleged that the presidential election held on February 25 was rigged in favour of President Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Obi in his claims has tendered several documentary evidences and called a total of 13 witnesses that testified before the Tribunal.
Among exhibits he tendered before the court included polling unit results from 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, as well as a bundle of documents containing the total number of Permanent Voters Card, PVCs, that were collected in 32 states prior to the 2023 general elections.
Aside from tendering four video exhibits, one of which was a press conference, where the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, assured that results of the election would be electronically transmitted to the IReV portal in real-time using the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines, Obi and his party, equally tendered bundle of documents that contained the total number of registered voters in each of the states.
Other electoral documents the court admitted in evidence were certified true copies of INEC Forms EC40Gs; EC40G1; EC40GPU, which were reports of various polling units were elections did not hold.
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Reacting to the evidences, novelist and political commentator Paul Uwadima in a YouTube video said, Tinubu should be worried about some of the accusations made against him and the evidences provided.
Uwadima noted that Tinubu’s opponents claimed there were discrepancies in the certificates he gave to INEC.
He said that due to discrepancies in the supporting documentation that was provided to INEC, the Supreme Court invalidated the election of a governor-elect for the Bayelsa state.
In his own words: “It is clear that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu should also be concerned. The Supreme Court will ultimately rule on this issue, and already with the sort of evidence that is emerging in court.
“In 2019, the Supreme Court invalidated the election of the APC’s candidate for governor of Bayelsa State, and the PDP took control of the state as a result.”
“This is because, according to the evidence that was presented in court, there were discrepancies in the certificates issued by NYSC and other organisations. The same kind of certificate contradiction is now pursuing Tinubu in court.”
Watch video here.