Obi wants PEPC to give him seven weeks to produce 50 witnesses against Tinubu’s election

Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election, has asked the Presidential Election Petition Court {PEPC} to produce 50 witnesses to establish his case against the election of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

According to Obi, the 50 witnesses would testify and tender evidence to establish that the 2023 presidential election was rigged against him.

Obi, through his lead counsel, Prof. Awa Kalu {SAN}, disclosed this on Saturday during the proceedings on the petition he filed to challenge the president-elect, Tinubu.

He also noted that he was constrained in addition to a few hiccups he encountered at the Independent National Electoral Commission {INEC, hence the request for seven weeks.

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Prof Kalu said: “My lords, we still have a few hiccups at INEC because of the order that was made by this court on March 8, directing them to allow us to carry out a forensic examination of the BVAS. They have not allowed us.

“We are also waiting for some documents we requested from them.”  

He further agreed that star witnesses would be given 30 minutes to present their evidence-in-chief, excluding the time for possible demonstration of any electronic evidence, disclosing that parties agreed to use 20 minutes each to cross-examine the witnesses, another five minutes would be used for their re-examination.

However, INEC, through its lawyer, Mr Abubakar Mahmood {SAN} said it had no agreement with either Obi or the LP on time to be allocated to the witnesses.