The Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate in the February 23, 2019 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Monday, presented their first set of six witnesses at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in their bid to prove their petition challenging outcome of the polls.

They are by their petition filed before the Justice Mohammed Garba-led tribunal of five justices, challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress at the polls.

The petitioners presented their witnesses just as there were indications that they would challenge the results of the presidential election in 11 states.

Monday was the third of the 10 days the petitioners were allotted to present their case.

A former ally of Buhari, Buba Galadima, was the first witness presented by the petitioners at the Monday’s proceedings, contending that Buhari was not academically qualified to contest the presidential election.

Others included three Independent National Electoral Comimssion’s ad hoc workers serving in different capacities during the election, who testified that they transmitted the results of the election electronically as INEC trained them to do.

Others were party agents, who alleged harassment and intimidation of voters at their polling units.

Indication emerged on Monday that the petitioners might limit their challenge of the outcome of the polls to 11 states.

The petitioners tendered the last set of result sheets for the states on Monday.

The states are: Niger, Yobe, Katsina, Jigawa, Kebbi, Kano, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Kaduna and Zamfara.

The petitioners tendered through their lead counsel, the result sheets for Zamfara State, those for the four remaining local governments of Kano, having tendered those for the rest of the local governments of the state on Friday.

They had tendered the result sheets for the nine other states last week.

They also tendered among other exhibits, newspapers certified by the National Library on April 8, 2019.

They also tendered a document certified by INEC containing the total number of registered voters and collected Permanent Voter Cards for the 2019 general elections.

They tendered Form EC8E dated February 27, 2019, which is the final results of the February 23 presidential election as declared by INEC.

They also tendered 10 press releases by INEC and which were certified by the commission.

The proceedings continue on Tuesday.

The respondents objected to the admissibility of almost all the documents as exhibits but would only give their reasons for their objection at the final address stage.

Meanwhile, the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, on Monday made his first appearance at the tribunal.

Oshiomhole arrived at the courtroom at 9.36am on Monday barely some few minutes before the five-man panel led by Justice Mohammed Garba started sitting.

He sat inbetween the pioneer Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and leader of the APC from Adamawa State, Nuhu Ribadu, and a PDP leader, Tom Ikimi.

On Ikimi’s left was the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Kola Ologbondiyan.

When the proceedings began, Oshiomhole announced himself as representing both Buhari and the APC, the second and the third respondents to the petition.

Ologbodinyan represented the PDP.



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My gut tells me that Atiku is well aware of his slim chance of making any headway at the tribunal, but is going through this whole thing as a pretext to legitimise and build-up another attempt/shot at the presidency come 2023.

I think it should be all the states, as PMB along with Oshiom-ole and Thief-nubu rigged massively in all of them...

They are the demons the Church is praying against every now and then. But it's however sad that, Christians think they are praying against some spirits with horns, wings and a horrific look...

Nigeria now is struggling with countries like Mali, Benin Republic, Niger...

I'm sure this is not the future our forefathers envisaged, if so, they won't have bothered too much about emancipation, self-rule from our colonial monsters. God bless Nnamdi Azikiwe, Herbert Macaulay, Anthony Enahoro, Tafawa Balewa, Obafemi Awolowo...

This Atiku lawyers are the most confused set of attorneys I've ever come across in life, very soon dem go add result of southern cameroon join the result to be contested. Bunch of confused lot.

That's the difficulty in election petition, why those states alone?
He will need to prove beyond reasonable doubt across all the affected polling units....

They really robbed this guy... So painful!

But I thought Inec had servers for transmitting of results.
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Initial Gragra, Atiku Pls Allow Buhari To Complete His Destructive Mission

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Evidence and (evidences) the challenger would soon get himself and his team confused..

Almost 16 million Nigerians cannot be wrong.

We voted for the right man for the job.

We voted for the man of integrity and not an internationally recognised thief being supported by smaller thieves.

We voted for the best President in the history of Nigeria.

God bless our darling President Muhammadu Buhari and his AMIABLE Vice President PROF YEMI OSINBAJO as they take our country to a New Nigeria.

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They really robbed this guy... So painful!

Shut up where is the evidence.did he win in the first place

Wow, dude still got a lot of money!
I'll prefer Kano, that Ganduje is something else.

But let Atiku not expect winning, PDP already has a fair share of the states more than I would have thought.

This man no dey tire??

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Almost 16 million Nigerians cannot be wrong.

We voted for the right man for the job.

We voted for the man of integrity and not an internationally recognised thief being supported by smaller thieves.

We voted for the best President in the history of Nigeria.

God bless our darling President Muhammadu Buhari and his AMIABLE Vice President PROF YEMI OSINBAJO as they take our country to a New Nigeria.

Oh shut it... Cursed failure like Buhari can't win anything... Paid sycophantic soul

God bless Nigeria.

Osho Baba

Representing PMB

A country where the oppressed defend their oppressors. Tufiakwa. Look at some comments here!

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Oh shut it... Cursed failure like Buhari can't win anything... Paid sycophantic soul

in your place we know he can't win, but for the rest of NIGERIA he can and he Won!!!!

Ah. Okay but this is not a regional election na.

I only pray they can conclude this whole stuff within 6months-1 year so that we all will have peace of mind. Until then, may God continue to save us from us....

Atiku should go and rest joor. He can't win... Never