Tribunal: Peter Obi tenders blurred IReV evidence before court

Labour Party (LP) and its flagbearer for the February 25 presidential election, Peter Obi on Wednesday, June 14, tendered additional blurred INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV) documents before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC).

The petitioners, Obi and his Labour Party (LP) are challenging the election which brought President Bola Ahmed Tinubu into power.

Respondents are Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), President Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima and the All Progressives Congress (APC).

At the resumed hearing of the PEPC, the petitioners tendered, IREV reports downloaded and certified by INEC in 21 LGAs in Benue state, 25 LGAs in Niger state and 17 LGAs in Edo state, The Nation reported.

Obi also tendered the IREV reports from 20 LGA of Bauchi and a bundle of the blurred reports, eight LGA of Bayelsa IreV reports were tendered also.

IreV reports from Bayelsa marked blurred, no results or cancelled were tendered, Gombe eight LGA and a bundle of blurred reports not linked to any LGA and IreV report for Kaduna, 21 LGA and two bundles of blurred reports not linked to any government area were tendered also, Daily Trust reported.

Tendered further are IreV certificates of compliance of six states excluding Akwa Ibom, and 28 states including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

All the documents tendered were objected to by all the respondents but admitted and marked as exhibits by the court.

Meanwhile, the five-man panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani adjourned until Thursday, June 15, for further hearing of the petition.