PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PETITION TRIBUNAL: Buhari wants his bio-data form set aside, as Oshiomhole makes first appearance

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday challenged admissibility of the form containing his bio-data at the on going presidential election petition tribunal.

At the tribunal, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the February 23 presidential election are challenging the victory of President Buhari.

The petitioners are praying the tribunal to sack Buhari and declare Atiku as valid winner of the presidential contest, or in the alternative, order a fresh presidential election.

The petitioners had since tendered result sheets from 10 states, comprising of results from Polling Units, Wards and Local Government Areas of the states.

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Meanwhile, at the resumed hearing in Monday, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole, on Monday, made his first appearance.

Oshiomhole who had yet to attend the proceedings since May 15 when the tribunal held its inaugural sitting, announced his appearance for the APC on Monday.

The PDP was represented by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan.

PDP and Atiku had in their joint petition marked CA/PEPC/002/2019, insisted that data they independently secured from INEC’s back-end server, revealed that they defeated President Buhari at the poll with over 1.6million votes.

The petitioners said they would call evidence of statisticians, forensic examiners and finger-print experts at the hearing of the petition to establish that the scores credited to Buhari were not the product of actual votes validly cast at the polling units.

The petitioners had vowed to call 400 witnesses, “or as many as possible within the prescribed time”, to prove their case.

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