The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has rejected the majority of documents presented before the Presidential Election Petition Court by Atiku Abubakar and the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
The rejection followed the admissibility of the material in accordance with the court-ordered pre-hearing reports binding on all parties in the case.
Atiku Abubakar and the PDP will have to deal with the rejection of papers that was supposed to help their case before the petition court, as all of the respondents appeared to be opposed to their admissibility.
This contradicts INEC’s comments during the pre-hearing, which stated that they would not object to any document completely certified by the commission.
Chris Uche, counsel for Atiku and the PDP, stated at the start of the case that the team had prepared a second schedule of documents to be tendered, adding that the documents had been fully served on the respondents.
