Although, the prosecution led by Mr. Aliyu Umar (SAN) had proposed to call six witnesses to prove its case against the defendant, it closed its case after calling three of them.
Umar announced his decision to close the prosecution’s case after the third witness, Ifeoma Okeagbue, an official of Standard Chartered Bank, concluded her testimony on Thursday.
The prosecuting counsel said he had chosen to offer to the defence team the rest of his proposed witnesses, three of them, who were not called by the prosecution.
But the lead defence counsel, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), rejected the offer.
Part of the petition
read: “The 1st Respondent wrongly and unlawfully credited the 2nd
Respondent with votes which were not valid or lawful votes at various
stages of the election, namely, at the polling units, the ward collating
centres, local government collating centres and the State collating
centres, with the result that the 2nd Respondent was wrongly returned
when the said 2nd Respondent did not score majority of lawful votes.
“The Petitioners shall also call evidence of statisticians forensic
examiners and finger-print experts at the hearing of the Petition to
establish that the scores credited the 2nd Respondent were not the
product of actual votes validly cast at the polling units. The
Petitioners plead and shall rely on electronic video recordings,
newspaper reports, photographs and photographic images of several
infractions of the electoral process by the Respondents. Read more: https://www.legit.ng/1228681-atiku-releases-state-by-state-result-presidential-election-full-report.html
Read more: https://www.legit.ng/1228681-atiku-releases-state-by-state-result-presidential-election-full-report.html
Read more: https://www.legit.ng/1228681-atiku-releases-state-by-state-result-presidential-election-full-report.html
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