The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has tendered two documents before the Governorship Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
DAILY POST reports that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Abdulrazak Atunwa, are challenging the genuineness or otherwise of the WAEC certificate of Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq at the tribunal.
Tendering the documents on Wednesday at the resumed sitting of the tribunal on the pre-hearing session, INEC counsel Rowland Otaru (SAN), identified them as forms ECAD and ECAE which contained the results of the election across the 16 local government areas and declaration of results for the office of the governor of the state.
Otaru added that the documents affirmed that All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq was the winner of the election.
He told the tribunal that “those are the documents we have now at this pre-hearing session. Every other document will come in during the real trial.”
Meanwhile, Barrister Kingsley Odey, counsel to the PDP did not object to the tendering of the document.
Mr. Odey informed the court that he intends to call up maximum of five witnesses, adding that one will be a document expert and the other will be subpoenaed from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) office.
Pre-hearing conference continues on Thursday for the streamlining of trial timetable.
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