Tribunal admits 1,004 documents from Ighodalo, PDP

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On Friday, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, the candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), submitted 1004 documents to the Edo Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Benin City.

According to ZINGTIE, the candidate and his party are contesting both the election’s conduct and the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) announcement that Monday Okpebholo, the candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC), had won.

At the petition’s resume hearing, Ken Mozia, the petitioner’s attorney, produced the documents.

The three-member panel, which is presided over by Justice Wilfred Kpochi, admits all 1004 of the submitted documents as exhibits.

Among the documents were the Local Government Areas and Certified True Copies (CTC) of the INEC declaration of results forms EC8A-E summary of the findings used to conduct the state’s gubernatorial election on September 21, 2024.

Certified True Copies of Form EC8Cs, which cover the state’s 18 Local Government Areas, are also tendered.

In support of the petitioners’ claims, Certified True Copies (CTC) of Forms EC8B (Wards Results Sheets), which were utilised to conduct the election in each of the state’s 192 Wards, were also submitted.

Additionally, 320 Certified True Copies of Form EC8A papers (polling units results sheets) were presented as evidence by the petitioners.

The petitioners also submitted 58 CTCs of Forms EC8A (IREV) and 318 CTCs of INEC’s Polling Units Booklets, each of which included Form EC25D.

Mozia stated during the document tendering that the verification of the more than 1004 documents was properly completed in front of the tribunal registrar and the parties’ solicitors.

The tribunal accepted the documents as exhibits in spite of the respondents’ attorneys, Kanu Agabi, SAN, Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, and VC Dewigwe, objecting to their admissibility.

At the petition’s final address, the respondents’ attorney stated that they would provide justifications for the objections to the petitioners’ CTC papers.

Nonetheless, all of the documents submitted as evidence were designated as exhibits and provisionally allowed by the trial presided over by Justice Wilfred Kpochi.

However, because the petitioners are anticipated to submit further papers to bolster their claims, the tribunal postponed the hearing to Saturday, January 18, 2025.

According to ZINGTIE, the petitioners, Dr. Ighodalo and PDP, would present oral testimony in support of their claims after the documented evidence was admitted.

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