INEC EXPLAINS REFUSAL TO ACCEPT ADMITTANCE OF DOCUMENTS IN EVIDENCE


The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday in Abuja, seized an opportunity presented at the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC) to explain its reasons for refusing that its own documents be admitted in evidence.

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP,) Mr Peter Obi and his party sought to tender the documents as exhibits to establish their petition against the conduct of the Feb. 25 Presidential Election.

INEC had on Thursday, through its counsel, Mr Kemi Pinhero, SAN, objected to the admission of several documents brought to the PEPC by the petitioners for the purpose of tendering them as exhibits in support of their petition.

At Friday’s proceedings, INEC also objected to all the certified true copies of the Form EC8A the petitioners sought to tender from local governments across six states.

INEC’s counsel, Pinhero told the court that the electoral body (INEC) kicked against the tendering of certified true copies of the documents, mainly election result sheets, on the grounds that they were strange to the petition.

Pinhero explained that issues were not joined in the local government areas where the result sheets were sought to be tendered, adding that it was wrong for the petitioners to go beyond the areas where the election was disputed.

According to INEC, the local government areas unlawfully smuggled into proceedings of the court are totally strange to the petition and cannot stand in the face of the law.

The Chairman of the Court, Justice Haruna Tsammani, however, held that it was wrong for INEC’S lawyer to attempt to give reasons for his objection now when all parties had agreed during the pre-hearing stage to give reasons at the address stage.

The counsel, however, said that he was compelled to offer some explanation following the bashing the commission received in the media that it was objecting to the admittance of its own documents in court.

Meanwhile, the court has admitted as exhibits, Forms EC8A from 21 local government areas of Adamawa, Lagos state, eight local government areas of Bayelsa and parts of Rivers and Niger as tendered by the petitioners.

Source:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/06/inec-explains-refusal-to-accept-admittance-of-documents-in-evidence/

**My Own Submissions On This Very Issue..**

Inside the LP’s PETITION,, I could clearly read where they specifically mentioned ELEVEN STATES, and then went ahead to write “AND OTHER STATES”


LP had produced the results in the mentioned 11 states,, and proceeded to continue to produce the results in some “OTHER” additional 7 States, making it a total of 18 States in all..

How can the INEC be expecting Peter Obi to tender only the STATE-LEVEL Collated Results for the States they were disputing, without him tendering all the Polling-unit Results, and all Wards Collated Results, and all the LGAs Collated Results of all the States he intended to dispute..??

How could the INEC be expecting them to present some LGAs inside any state which they are disputing, and then leave out some other LGAs,, yet they were supposed to be disputing the results in the whole of the mentioned states, and including “other states”?


For the Fact that he wrote “And Other States” inside his petition,, he is at liberty to dispute the whole if the 36 States and the FCT...
Thus, the 11 mentioned states are sacrosanct..
Any other states he added are at his choice.

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So Wait Ooo...
This particular counsel had to come out of their APC/INEC’s secluded protection in order to do some fake explanations and CONFESSIONS.??

Them never see something yet..
We are still watching them, and following all of them Bumper-to-Bumper..


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Election held in every local government area, and it's the right of the petitioner to decide on the scope of their petition.

INEC should rest. They've done enough.

Good

Pinhero explained that issues were not joined in the local government areas where the result sheets were sought to be tendered, adding that it was wrong for the petitioners to go beyond the areas where the election was disputed.

According to INEC, the local government areas unlawfully smuggled into proceedings of the court are totally strange to the petition and cannot stand in the face of the law.

So, what they wanted was for the petitioner to inform them before hand so that they can go and do their magomago

Come to think of it, is INEC not proud of the results they declared at the state level and federal level

INEC should just accept that they were caught off guard and will be exposed

Wetin obi wan go find from those areas where the election was disputed.?

inshort , dat obi na mumu....

Inec dey play.

Place holder president will soon be booted out

Is it INEC responsibility to determine the direction a petitioner's grievances should go? Why is INEC against its own documents? All these senseless rantings are just lame excuses, but that can't never stop the quest to unearth all the wuruwuru INEC legalised in the last presidential election.

Mr Kemi Pinhero, SAN! Who made this man a SAN?

Elections take place across polling units which are way smaller than LGAs.

If the result INEC declared doesn't tally with the results across the polling units, LGAs and states, it means INEC rigged the election in-house. That's enough to declare the petitioner the winner.

Anini and Derico no thief pass INEC

Court does not deal with emotion, but the law. For obi to bring irrelevant materials as exhibit will just amount to waste of time. Is it not the same EC8A that one 'Amaka' would sign for all polling unit agents of other parties for fraud cases? How can that be reliable? The electronically transmitted ones remains more reliable. LP can't teach INEC on how to do her work. Same procedures were followed where LP won and other previous elections. At the end of the day, INEC and APC will give reasons for their objections and let's see if LP will not begin to cry foul again

Pinhero explained that issues were not joined in the local government areas where the result sheets were sought to be tendered, adding that it was wrong for the petitioners to go beyond the areas where the election was disputed.

According to INEC, the local government areas unlawfully smuggled into proceedings of the court are totally strange to the petition and cannot stand in the face of the law.

Imagine. Lamba Nanu & his crooked Lawyers..

Interesting days ahead..

oyebanji44:


Mynd44
Seun

Rule 2 A provocative response..insulting and bullying a nairalander

Abeg do the needful

So you don't know that Peter Obi is my good dad I returned the insult black you, you can't insult some one I love and I will be quiet it doesn't work that way

Bobloco:
Pinhero explained that issues were not joined in the local government areas where the result sheets were sought to be tendered, adding that it was wrong for the petitioners to go beyond the areas where the election was disputed.

According to INEC, the local government areas unlawfully smuggled into proceedings of the court are totally strange to the petition and cannot stand in the face of the law.

So, what they wanted was for the petitioner to inform them before hand so that they can go and do their magomago

Come to think of it, is INEC not proud of the results they declared at the state level and federal level

INEC should just accept that they were caught off guard and will be exposed

Seem you’re allergic to comprehension..

Inec is indicting your Lp and you’re here flipping..

According to INEC, the local government areas unlawfully smuggled into proceedings of the court are totally strange to the petition and cannot stand in the face of the law.

Inec na thief

As professionals, they should not be swayed by the 'bashing' from the public. We are watching the court proceedings keenly.

INEC is an electoral arm of APC.

GeneralPula:

Seem you’re allergic to comprehension..

Inec is indicting your Lp and you’re here flipping..

According to INEC, the local government areas unlawfully smuggled into proceedings of the court are totally strange to the petition and cannot stand in the face of the law.

Inside the PETITION,, I could clearly read where they mentioned ELEVEN STATES, and then went ahead to write “AND OTHER STATES”


LP had produced the results in the mentioned 11 states,, and proceeded to continue to produce the results in some “OTHER” additional 7 States, making it a total of 18 States in all..

How can the INEC be expecting Peter Obi to tender only the STATE-LEVEL Collated Results for the States they were disputing, without him tendering all the Polling-unit Results, and all Wards Collated Results, and all the LGAs Collated Results of all the States he intended to dispute..??


For the Fact that he wrote “And Other States” inside his petition,, he is at liberty to dispute the whole if the 36 States and the FCT...
Thus, the 11 mentioned states are sacrosanct..
Any other states he added are at his choice.

Inec is an electoral thief.

sreamsense:
Court does not deal with emotion, but the law. For obi to bring irrelevant materials as exhibit will just amount to waste of time. Is it not the same EC8A that one 'Amaka' would sign for all polling unit agents of other parties for fraud cases? How can that be reliable? The electronically transmitted ones remains more reliable. LP can't teach INEC on how to do her work. Same procedures were followed where LP won and other previous elections. At the end of the day, INEC and APC will give reasons for their objections and let's see if LP will not begin to cry foul again

Inside the PETITION,, I could clearly read where they mentioned ELEVEN STATES, and then went ahead to write “AND OTHER STATES”


LP had produced the results in the mentioned 11 states,, and proceeded to continue to produce the results in some “OTHER” additional 7 States, making it a total of 18 States in all..

How can the INEC be expecting Peter Obi to tender only the STATE-LEVEL Collated Results for the States they were disputing, without him tendering all the Polling-unit Results, and all Wards Collated Results, and all the LGAs Collated Results of all the States he intended to dispute..??


For the Fact that he wrote “And Other States” inside his petition,, he is at liberty to dispute the whole if the 36 States and the FCT...
Thus, the 11 mentioned states are sacrosanct..
Any other states he added are at his choice.

ok

pandoragirigory:
ok

Ok Naa

@ senatordave1, you are very correct, Obi was busy tendering documents that was outside his petition. Obi is really clowning.

femisplash:
@ senatordave1, yot are very correct, Obi was busy tendering documents that was outside his petition.

continue dreaming!! Hementioned the states in his petition.As long as the LGAs are in those states,INEC has no case

Hmmm, but inec anounced the results of those local govt. and used them to declare the winner. Is now I truly know that inecc is a big scammer

cktheluckyman:


continue dreaming!! Hementioned the states in his petition.As long as the LGAs are in those states,INEC has no case

He has wasted 1wk out of 3wks. Obi is a boy.

BluntCrazeMan:
Inside the PETITION,, I could clearly read where they mentioned ELEVEN STATES, and then went ahead to write “AND OTHER STATES”


LP had produced the results in the mentioned 11 states,, and proceeded to continue to produce the results in some “OTHER” additional 7 States, making it a total of 18 States in all..

How can the INEC be expecting Peter Obi to tender only the STATE-LEVEL Collated Results for the States they were disputing, without him tendering all the Polling-unit Results, and all Wards Collated Results, and all the LGAs Collated Results of all the States he intended to dispute..??


For the Fact that he wrote “And Other States” inside his petition,, he is at liberty to dispute the whole if the 36 States and the FCT...
Thus, the 11 mentioned states are sacrosanct..
Any other states he added are at his choice.

These people don't know Obi, man was prepared for the court case more than the election self, they should as Ngige, Obi might lose the court case, but he will expose these corrupt institutions.