There are indications that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its 2019 Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, will challenge presidential election results in 11 states.
Yaahoo Journalist reports that the opposition party and its presidential candidate are challenging President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) election victory as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nigeria’s electoral umpire.
On Monday, PDP and Abubakar presented Buba Galadima as their first set of witnesses at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.
Yaahoo Journalist understands that Monday was the third of the 10 days Abubakar and his team have to present their case before the tribunal.
The states where it looks like the petitioners might be challenging the outcome of the Presidential election are Niger, Yobe, Katsina, Jigawa, Kebbi, Kano, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Kaduna, and Zamfara states.
It was learned that the former Vice President and the PDP, tendered Buhari’s form CF001 which contained his personal data as part of efforts to establish their petition against Buhari on his qualification for the last presidential election.
Apart from the form, Abubakar also tendered the final results of the election signed by Professor Yakubu Mahmood which the tribunal admitted as exhibit.
Also tendered and admitted as exhibits are documents containing the total number of voters in the INEC register and the number of collected permanent voters’ card for the elections.
Dr. Livy Uzoukwu, the lead counsel to Abubakar, also tendered six newspapers publications and 10 press statements issued by INEC in respect of the election.
Other documents numbering 6, 806 mainly election result sheets from the Kano and Zamfara states were also tendered and admitted by the tribunal.
Meanwhile, President Buhari, through his legal team, objected to the admissibility of almost all the documents as exhibits but stated they would only give their reasons for their objection at the final address stage.