Tinubu, INEC kick as Peter Obi tenders total PVCs in 32 states

The amount of Permanent Voters Cards, or PVCs, gathered in the 32 states of the federation before the 2023 general elections were disclosed in a bundle of exhibits that were admitted in evidence by the Presidential Petition Court, or PEPC, which was sitting in Abuja yesterday.
The five-member panel, led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, also accepted as evidence a collection of papers that listed each state's total number of registered voters.
The Labour Party, LP candidate, Mr Peter Obi, presented the materials to the court, claiming that President Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, was the beneficiary of voter fraud in the February 25 presidential election.
Obi's legal team was headed by Dr Livy Uzoukwu, SAN, but Mr Peter Afuba, SAN, another senior member of the team, submitted the exhibits on his behalf.
The petitioners informed the court that the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, had properly certified the exhibits.
The electoral body, however, asserted that it was adamantly opposed to the admissibility of the exhibits in evidence through the representation of its attorney, Mr Kemi Pinhero, SAN.

The admission of the exhibits as evidence was also contested by President Tinubu and the APC, the second and third respondents in the case.
In their last written address, all of the respondents promised to provide justifications for their reservations.
Despite the concerns, the court marked the total number of PVCs from the 32 states as exhibits PCN 1 to PCN 32 and accepted the documents in evidence.
A certified true copy of a certificate of compliance on exhibits that the petitioners had previously submitted regarding Edo State was also accepted into evidence by the court.
Following the petitioners' presentation of them, the court further admitted certified copies of extra IReV reports for three Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Benue State, two LGAs in Cross River State, 12 LGAs in Lagos State, and one LGA in Gombe State as evidence.