For the third time, the Presidential Election Petition Court, on Thursday, stepped down hearing in the petition filed by the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, against the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Daily Post reported that the petition was stepped down by the court following a poor schedule of documents being sought to be tendered to establish the allegations of malpractices during the February 25 presidential election.
During the proceedings, the court discovered that the documents were not properly scheduled as ordered by the Court.
In the drama that ensued at the point of rendering the documents from the 23 local government areas of Benue, a lot of discrepancies were uncovered.
All efforts to reconcile the anomaly and reschedule the documents were unsuccessful as the errors were beyond immediate solution.
To save the situation, counsel to Obi and the Labour Party, Chief Emeka Okpoko SAN, sought to use documents not filed to conduct the proceedings, but the move was rejected on the ground of illegality.
In the end, the court stepped down hearing of the petition and ordered the legal team to go and re-file the schedule of documents in line with the provisions of the pre-hearing report.
This is the third time the hearing of Obi’s petition would run into stormy waters, prompting the continuous shift in the hearing of the petition.
