2nd of June 2023
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The Court hearing will begin by 9:00 am and updates will roll in.
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UPDATE: Peter Obi is in court. Appearances will be taken soon.
The hearing begins.
The court hearing for today began at 9:25 am
There's been a slight change in the scheduling.
Peter Obi's petition was supposed to go first, from 9 am-12 pm.
The court will be hearing the APM petition first but they may still adjourn their case because they have not obtained the Supreme Court judgments.
The court hearing for today began at 9:25 am
There's been a slight change in the scheduling.
Peter Obi's petition was supposed to go first, from 9 am-12 pm.
The court will be hearing the APM petition first but they may still adjourn their case because they have not obtained the Supreme Court judgments.
The Counsel of the APM informs the court that they have not obtained a copy of the judgment from the court, which was the reason for adjourning in the last hearing (Tuesday)
They requested an adjournment so that they can obtain the judgment.
The judgment in question is the PDP-Shettima case.
They requested an adjournment so that they can obtain the judgment.
The judgment in question is the PDP-Shettima case.
All parties have agreed on 9th just 2023. Other parties have no objections to this.
This is strictly for APM case
This is strictly for APM case
Peter Obi petition begins CA/PEPC/03/2023
~Peter Obi represents himself & Labour party
~Chris Magida reps APC
~Dr. Livy Uzoukwu SAN leading the petitioner team
~Peter Obi represents himself & Labour party
~Chris Magida reps APC
~Dr. Livy Uzoukwu SAN leading the petitioner team
~Dr. Kemi Pinhero SAN leads the 1st R Team
~Chief Akin Olujimi SAN leads the 2nd and 3rd R' Team
~LO Fagbemi SAN leads the 4th R Team
R means Respondents
1R is INEC
2R and 3R are tinubu/shettima
4R is APC
~Chief Akin Olujimi SAN leads the 2nd and 3rd R' Team
~LO Fagbemi SAN leads the 4th R Team
R means Respondents
1R is INEC
2R and 3R are tinubu/shettima
4R is APC
Dr. Livy has informed the court that they will with submitting of documents. They have also filled out a schedule that includes the documents they want to submit
LP: We are ready to continue with Further tendering of documents. We filed a schedule comprising the documents we intend to tender this morning.
Court: You have up till 1 pm
LP: Yes. Peter Afuba SAN will conduct the proceedings.
Court: Okay
LP: Before we continue with other states, we crave your permission to tender two other states that were not finished yesterday, that is Niger State and Rivers State. We tagged them as Supplementary documents.
Concerning Rivers, we have INEC CTC of form EC8s of 6 LGAs. These are:
1. Bonni LGA
2. Eleme
3. Abua Odua
4. Okirika
5. Ahorda East
6. Oyigbo
We respectfully seek to tender them in evidence.
Court: Any objection?
INEC: We will be objecting to the admissibility of these documents. Arguments in this respect were taken on the 30th of May. Issues were not joined in these LGAs and we’ll be advancing our grounds in Final Address. They are strange to the petition.
Court: You said you’ll mention it in the Final address. When the court rules you don’t argue.
INEC: Sorry my Lords, it’s because the news was being made in the media
Court: (cutting him short) Yes who is next
2nd & 3rd Respondent: We oppose and will advance in the Final address
4th Respondent: We object to the admissibility and will articulate our arguments in the final address.
Court: You have up till 1 pm
LP: Yes. Peter Afuba SAN will conduct the proceedings.
Court: Okay
LP: Before we continue with other states, we crave your permission to tender two other states that were not finished yesterday, that is Niger State and Rivers State. We tagged them as Supplementary documents.
Concerning Rivers, we have INEC CTC of form EC8s of 6 LGAs. These are:
1. Bonni LGA
2. Eleme
3. Abua Odua
4. Okirika
5. Ahorda East
6. Oyigbo
We respectfully seek to tender them in evidence.
Court: Any objection?
INEC: We will be objecting to the admissibility of these documents. Arguments in this respect were taken on the 30th of May. Issues were not joined in these LGAs and we’ll be advancing our grounds in Final Address. They are strange to the petition.
Court: You said you’ll mention it in the Final address. When the court rules you don’t argue.
INEC: Sorry my Lords, it’s because the news was being made in the media
Court: (cutting him short) Yes who is next
2nd & 3rd Respondent: We oppose and will advance in the Final address
4th Respondent: We object to the admissibility and will articulate our arguments in the final address.
Court: The bundles of Form EC8As of the LGAs are hereby tagged
PD16- PD21 respectively
LG: Thank you my Lords. We also seek to tender form EC8A documents in respect of Bida LGA of Niger state.
Court: Any opposition?
INEC: We oppose and will advance our arguments in the final address.
PD16- PD21 respectively
LG: Thank you my Lords. We also seek to tender form EC8A documents in respect of Bida LGA of Niger state.
Court: Any opposition?
INEC: We oppose and will advance our arguments in the final address.
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2nd and 3rd: Oppose and will advance reasons in our address.
4th: We similarly oppose the admissibility of the documents and will advance our arguments at the address stage.
Court: The bundle of CTC documents in respect to Bida LGA of Niger are hereby admitted in evidence and tagged Exhibit PE24
LP: We now respectfully seek to tender CTCs in respect of 21 LGAs in Adamawa State.
On page 8 of our Schedule, we repeated one LGA, “Song LGA”. Deleting that one at number 10, we now have 21 LGAs. They are:
1. Ganaye
2. Mubi North
3. Gireri
4. Song
5. Yola North
6. Hong
7. Maiha
8. Jada
9. Pichika
10. Shelleng
11. Mayo-Belwa
12. Numan
13. Mubi South
14. Madagali
15. Demsa
16. Mubi
17. Guyuk
18. Toungo
19. Yola South
20. Fufore
21. Lamurde
INEC: We object and shall give reasons at the appropriate time.
2nd&3rd: We also Object and will try to persuade your Lordships in our address.
4th: We also object to the admissibility of all the documents sought to be tendered in respect of Adamawa state and will in the fullness of time advance our reasons.
Court: Bundles of Documents in respect of form EC8As from Adamawa are hereby admitted as evidence and tagged PH1-PH21 respectively
4th: We similarly oppose the admissibility of the documents and will advance our arguments at the address stage.
Court: The bundle of CTC documents in respect to Bida LGA of Niger are hereby admitted in evidence and tagged Exhibit PE24
LP: We now respectfully seek to tender CTCs in respect of 21 LGAs in Adamawa State.
On page 8 of our Schedule, we repeated one LGA, “Song LGA”. Deleting that one at number 10, we now have 21 LGAs. They are:
1. Ganaye
2. Mubi North
3. Gireri
4. Song
5. Yola North
6. Hong
7. Maiha
8. Jada
9. Pichika
10. Shelleng
11. Mayo-Belwa
12. Numan
13. Mubi South
14. Madagali
15. Demsa
16. Mubi
17. Guyuk
18. Toungo
19. Yola South
20. Fufore
21. Lamurde
INEC: We object and shall give reasons at the appropriate time.
2nd&3rd: We also Object and will try to persuade your Lordships in our address.
4th: We also object to the admissibility of all the documents sought to be tendered in respect of Adamawa state and will in the fullness of time advance our reasons.
Court: Bundles of Documents in respect of form EC8As from Adamawa are hereby admitted as evidence and tagged PH1-PH21 respectively
LP: May I now respectfully move to Bayelsa state? We seek to tender CTCs of Forms EC8As in respect of 8 LGAs in Bayelsa set schedule of documents. They are:
1. Southern Ijaw
2. Lembe
3. Sagbama
4. Yenegoa
5. Ekeremo
6. Polokuma
7. Brase
8. Ogbiya
Court: (PJ jokes) Since there is no Northern Ijaw, my learned brother here are suggesting I come from there.
LP: (jokes) After all my learned Senior here is “Awa” (As in Awa Kalu) therefore he’s from Adamawa. (Court laughs)
INEC: We oppose and shall advance our reasons in the Final address.
2nd & 3rd: We oppose and shall advance reasons in the address
4th: We object to the admissibility of these documents and will articulate our reasons in our final address.
1. Southern Ijaw
2. Lembe
3. Sagbama
4. Yenegoa
5. Ekeremo
6. Polokuma
7. Brase
8. Ogbiya
Court: (PJ jokes) Since there is no Northern Ijaw, my learned brother here are suggesting I come from there.
LP: (jokes) After all my learned Senior here is “Awa” (As in Awa Kalu) therefore he’s from Adamawa. (Court laughs)
INEC: We oppose and shall advance our reasons in the Final address.
2nd & 3rd: We oppose and shall advance reasons in the address
4th: We object to the admissibility of these documents and will articulate our reasons in our final address.
Court: Admitted and marked PJ1-PJ8
LP: Next is Oyo state on Pages 18-28 of our schedule. Before I apply to tender the documents I respect this. May I draw your Lordship’s attention to a repetition. We seek to delete number 31 from our schedule.
We hereby Apply to tender in evidence of 31 LGAs in Oyo.
They are:
1. Afijio
2. Akinyele
3. Atiba
4. Atibo
5. Egbeda
6. Ibadan North
7. Ibadan North-East
8. Ibadan North-West
9. Ibadan South-East
10. Ibarapa Central
11. Ibarapa East
12. Ibarapa North
13. Ido
14. Irepo
15. Iseyin
16. Itesiwaju
17. Owajowa
18. Kajola
19. Lagelu
20. Ogbomosho North
21. Ogbomosho South
22. Ogo Oluwa
23. Olorunsogo
24. Oluyole
25. Orelope
26. Oru Ire
27. Oyo East
28. Oyo West
29. Saki East
30. Saki West
31. Surulere
LP: Next is Oyo state on Pages 18-28 of our schedule. Before I apply to tender the documents I respect this. May I draw your Lordship’s attention to a repetition. We seek to delete number 31 from our schedule.
We hereby Apply to tender in evidence of 31 LGAs in Oyo.
They are:
1. Afijio
2. Akinyele
3. Atiba
4. Atibo
5. Egbeda
6. Ibadan North
7. Ibadan North-East
8. Ibadan North-West
9. Ibadan South-East
10. Ibarapa Central
11. Ibarapa East
12. Ibarapa North
13. Ido
14. Irepo
15. Iseyin
16. Itesiwaju
17. Owajowa
18. Kajola
19. Lagelu
20. Ogbomosho North
21. Ogbomosho South
22. Ogo Oluwa
23. Olorunsogo
24. Oluyole
25. Orelope
26. Oru Ire
27. Oyo East
28. Oyo West
29. Saki East
30. Saki West
31. Surulere
INEC: We object and will advance our reasons
2nd & 3rd: We also oppose and will advance our reasons in final address.
4th: We object to the admissibility and will advance reasons in final address.
2nd & 3rd: We also oppose and will advance our reasons in final address.
4th: We object to the admissibility and will advance reasons in final address.
Court: 31 bundles of CTC of EC8As Hereby admitted as evidence and marked Exhibits: PK1-PK31
LP: We move to Edo state. We seek to tender EC8As in respect to 18 LGAs. Namely:
LP: We move to Edo state. We seek to tender EC8As in respect to 18 LGAs. Namely:
EC8As in respect to 18 LGAs. Namely:
1. Essang
2. Ovia South West
3. Ihunmwode
4. Esan North East
5. Akoko Edo
6. Ikpoba-Okha
7. Esan South East
8. Egor
9. Etsako Central
10. Etsako East
11. Ovia North East
12. Owan West
13. Oredo
14. Igueben
15. Osaka West
16. Orhionmwon
17. Owa East
18. Esan West
1. Essang
2. Ovia South West
3. Ihunmwode
4. Esan North East
5. Akoko Edo
6. Ikpoba-Okha
7. Esan South East
8. Egor
9. Etsako Central
10. Etsako East
11. Ovia North East
12. Owan West
13. Oredo
14. Igueben
15. Osaka West
16. Orhionmwon
17. Owa East
18. Esan West
Court: Any opposition?
INEC: We are opposed to this and will advance our reasons
2nd & 3rd: We oppose and will advance our reasons
4th: We align ourselves with the opposing of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respondents.
Court: Bundles of documents for form EC8As of 18 LGAs in the Edo state are hereby admitted as evidence and marked PL1- PL18
LP: My Lords we wish to proceed to Lagos state on pages 36-44 of our schedule. For 20 LGAs. We wish to tender form EC8As in these areas as evidence. Namely:
1. Apapa (One Justice asks as if he didn’t hear “What is the name of the first LGA again?” Counsel repeats “Apapa”. Court laughs. PJ says: “It reminds my learned brother of something”. Court laughs.)
2. Lagos Island
3. Lagos Mainland
4. Ikorodu
5. Amuwo Odofi
6. Ibeju-Lekki
7. Ikeja
8. Ifakoijaye
9. Kosofe
10. Oshodi-Isolo
11. Alimosho
12. Eti-Osa
13. Somolu
14. Mushin
15. Surulere
16. Agege
17. Epe
18. Ojo
19. Badagry
20. Ajeromi-Ifelodun
Court: Any opposition?
INEC: We indicate our objection to the admissibility of documents sought to be tendered from Lagos and we shall advance our reasons for this objection in due course.
2nd & 3rd: We object and will advance reasons later.
4th: We also object to the admissibility of all the documents concerning Lagos state and we are confident by the time we advance our reasons in the final address, the Petitioners would have laboured in vain.
Court: Bundles of documents of Form EC8As for 20 LGAs of Lagos state are hereby admitted as evidence and marked Exhibits PM1-PM20.
INEC: We are opposed to this and will advance our reasons
2nd & 3rd: We oppose and will advance our reasons
4th: We align ourselves with the opposing of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respondents.
Court: Bundles of documents for form EC8As of 18 LGAs in the Edo state are hereby admitted as evidence and marked PL1- PL18
LP: My Lords we wish to proceed to Lagos state on pages 36-44 of our schedule. For 20 LGAs. We wish to tender form EC8As in these areas as evidence. Namely:
1. Apapa (One Justice asks as if he didn’t hear “What is the name of the first LGA again?” Counsel repeats “Apapa”. Court laughs. PJ says: “It reminds my learned brother of something”. Court laughs.)
2. Lagos Island
3. Lagos Mainland
4. Ikorodu
5. Amuwo Odofi
6. Ibeju-Lekki
7. Ikeja
8. Ifakoijaye
9. Kosofe
10. Oshodi-Isolo
11. Alimosho
12. Eti-Osa
13. Somolu
14. Mushin
15. Surulere
16. Agege
17. Epe
18. Ojo
19. Badagry
20. Ajeromi-Ifelodun
Court: Any opposition?
INEC: We indicate our objection to the admissibility of documents sought to be tendered from Lagos and we shall advance our reasons for this objection in due course.
2nd & 3rd: We object and will advance reasons later.
4th: We also object to the admissibility of all the documents concerning Lagos state and we are confident by the time we advance our reasons in the final address, the Petitioners would have laboured in vain.
Court: Bundles of documents of Form EC8As for 20 LGAs of Lagos state are hereby admitted as evidence and marked Exhibits PM1-PM20.
LP: We respectfully move to Akwa-Ibom state. We have 31 LGAs. Please there is a repeat of Eastern Ogbulo. We wish to delete one, making it 31 LGAs. My Lords, we seek to tender form EC8As CTC by INEC in these 31 LGAs as evidence. Namely:
1. Esit Eket
2. Obot Akara
3. Mpat Enin
4. Ibesikpo Asutan
5. Ibeno
6. Ika
7. Eket
8. Nsit Atari
9. Etim Egbo
10. Urua Anan
11. Ibiono Ibom
12. Orkanafun
13. Mbo
14. Ikono
15. Nsit-Ibom
16. Nsit-Ubium
17. Abak
18. Ikot Ekpene
19. Essien Ode
20. Eastern Ogolo
21. Oron
22. Ikot Abasi
23. Uyo
24. Okobo
25. Uruan
26. Urue-Offong/Oruko
27. Ini
28. Onna
29. Udung Uko
30. Etinan
31. Itu
INEC: We oppose and will advance reasons
2nd & 3rd: We oppose and will also advance reasons
4th: We object to the admissibility of these documents from Akwa Ibom and will advance reasons in our Final Address.
Court: Bundles of documents of form EC8As from 31 LGAs in Akwa Ibom are hereby admitted as evidence and marked PN1 - PN31 Respectively.
1. Esit Eket
2. Obot Akara
3. Mpat Enin
4. Ibesikpo Asutan
5. Ibeno
6. Ika
7. Eket
8. Nsit Atari
9. Etim Egbo
10. Urua Anan
11. Ibiono Ibom
12. Orkanafun
13. Mbo
14. Ikono
15. Nsit-Ibom
16. Nsit-Ubium
17. Abak
18. Ikot Ekpene
19. Essien Ode
20. Eastern Ogolo
21. Oron
22. Ikot Abasi
23. Uyo
24. Okobo
25. Uruan
26. Urue-Offong/Oruko
27. Ini
28. Onna
29. Udung Uko
30. Etinan
31. Itu
INEC: We oppose and will advance reasons
2nd & 3rd: We oppose and will also advance reasons
4th: We object to the admissibility of these documents from Akwa Ibom and will advance reasons in our Final Address.
Court: Bundles of documents of form EC8As from 31 LGAs in Akwa Ibom are hereby admitted as evidence and marked PN1 - PN31 Respectively.
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