The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) on Wednesday afternoon, rejected ten out of the thirteen witnesses presented by Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party.
At 1.29 p.m, the presidential election court also rejected the reports of forensic analyses tendered by the three witnesses of the Labour Party for either being made during the pendency of the case or made by an interested party who would benefit from the outcome of the petitions.
Shortly after, the court rejected the European Union report on the 25 February presidential election on the grounds that they were not tendered by an official of the body which is the author and has the custody of the document.
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One of the judges, Mr Tsammani upholds respondents’ objection to the admissibility of evidence tendered by Mr. Obi’s web engineer, Mpeh Ogar, regarding a technical glitch observed on INEC Results Viewing portal on the election day.
The judge held that Ms Ogar was an interested party in the petition having vied for elective office at the polls on the platform of the Labour.
At 01:38 p.m, Mr. Tsammani said the petitioners’ alleged over-voting in some states but failed to specify the particular polling units where the alleged malpractices took place.
The petitioners failed to state the specific figures the scored at the units.