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July 15, 2019
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has overruled the objection by the Independent National Electoral Commission, President Muhammadu Buhari, and the All Progressives Congress, to the request by the Peoples Democratic Party and Atiku Abubakar to play some video clips at the Monday’s hearing of their petition challenging the outcome of the February 23, 2019 poll.
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The Justice Mohammed Garba-ledfive-man tribunal held that the objection by the respondents was baseless asthe 48 video compact discs sought to be tendered by the petitioners werecovered by the agreement reached at the pre-hearing session in respect of thecase.
The tribunal unanimously held thatas it had been done in respect of other exhibits tendered by the petitioners inline with the pre-hearing agreement, the respondents could only raise theirobjection to the admissibility of video exhibits and give reasons for it at thefinal address stage.
The tribunal went on to admit theVCDs as Exhibits P36 to P83.The certificate of compliance with the provisionof the Evidence Act accompanying the exhibits was admitted as Exhibit 84.