Tribunal: INEC Chairman responds to Atiku’s subpoena, tenders exhibit containing Tinubu’s age

Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has honoured a subpoena served on him by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar.

Atiku and the PDP had subpoenaed the INEC chairman to tender some sensitive documents before the presidential election petition court.

INEC present documents as evidence in court At the court session on Thursday, June 15, Chris Uche, the petitioners’ counsel, told the court that Yakubu is represented by Morenikeji Tahiru, deputy director, certification and complaint, legal drafting and clearance department, The Cable reported.

Tahiru said she had four out of the 11 documents itemised in the subpoena dated May 26, 2023.

INEC chairman tenders exhibit containing Tinubu’s age

Lastly, the INEC boss, tendered form EC9 which is the INEC form submitted to the commission by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria’s president, Vanguard reported added.

The document contained President Bola Tinubu’s age. The document, known as Form EC9, was an affidavit of personal particulars that President Tinubu submitted to the INEC in aid of his qualification to contest the 2023 presidential election.

Although Tahiru was called to present the documents, she was not identified as a witness — an act which the respondents’ counsel frowned against.

Abubakar Mahmoud, INEC counsel, opposed the admissibility of the documents in evidence. According to him, “many of those documents are not relevant”.