Welcome to Part 2 of today’s hearing….
Justice Tsammani: The document of form EC8Bs are now tendered and admitted APC lawyer interrupts
APC: My lord, you didn’t take down my objection. I was waiting for you to finish writing before I speak. Justice Ugo: There’s no problem we recorded the usual thing for you ‘Everyone is laughing’
Justice Ugo: Or you want to accept Justice Tsammani: There’s no need We have recorded. We know what you want to say. It’s your usual statement.
Justice Tsammani: The document of form EC8Bs are now tendered and admitted to the court.
SAN Ananaba: My lord, you heard what he said that he did not give his objection Justice Tsammani: It’s okay, it’s okay, we heard him. Let’s go on.
‘Justice Tsammani quickly stopped LP SAN Ananaba before he starts a gbas gbos ’
SAN Ananaba: My lord we have 8 LGA of Bayelsa State form EC8Cs All respondents (INEC, APC, Tinubu and Shettima) have objected to the tendering of these documents as evidences before the court and stated they would give a reason at final address.
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Justice Tsammani: Documents of Form EC8Cs of 8 LGA of Bayelsa State are now tendered and tagged as exhibits.
SAN Ananaba: We now wish to tender my lord 23 LGA form EC8Cs of Benue state on page 79 of the 4th schedule
Justice Tsammani gives a nod All respondents have now objected to the document tendered.
Justice Tsammani has now documented them as evidence before the court.
SAN Ananaba: My lord, to quickly tender 18 LGA in Cross River State on page 80 of the 4th schedule
Justice Tsammani: Let’s go on All the respondents as usual objected to the documents presented by the Labour Party and Peter Obi lawyers.
Justice Tsammani has now admitted the form EC8Cs as evidence before the court as exhibit PAT1 – PAT18
To answer some questions, Form EC8A is the pink slip at the polling unit level where every polling agent sign the result. It is the first point of collating votes The EC8B is the form used at the Ward where they compile all the form EC8A above and input the number of votes from there into the EC8B It is the Ward computation form. Then next is EC8C which is used at LGA to compute total of votes per wards.
Then the form EC8D is for the State. So they compute all the LGA votes and record it here. The EC8E is what is used for concluded signatory result. This is what is used to declare the winner. It is the final sheet for declaring the winner of the election.
The lawyers would have to tender as evidence all the documents that INEC “claimed” to have used to declare their winner. So that when the gbas gbos of cross examination starts, everyone can see for themselves clearly that INEC didn’t just steal but disregarded the entire democratic process.
So let the lawyers take their time to submit these documents, so that even if it’s for all of us to carry calculator in the courtroom and start counting it ourselves, we would find out where INEC got their false figures from. So hopefully, Labour Party would be able to round this up today.
Stepped out of the courtroom The Labour Party Chairman and Peter Obi also stepped out We were making some calls and sorting out some issues as regards some developments in Lagos State today. I’m back in the courtroom now.
So far the record from our lawyers show we have tendered the following form EC8Cs: 10 LGA in Ebonyi were tendered 18 LGA form EC8Cs in Edo State 20 LGA form EC8Cs in Lagos State 25 LGA form EC8Cs in Niger State 18 LGA in Ondo State 33 LGA in Oyo State 23 LGA in Rivers State 23 LGA in Sokoto State These were all rendered and all respondents objected to the admissibility of the evidences and stated their reasons would be given in their final address.
We all cannot wait to see that final address.
Justice Tsammani admitted all these forms EC8Cs as evidences before the court and tagged them as exhibits.
SAN Ananaba: My lord may I call the next documents. Move to schedule 5 my lord.
Justice Tsammani: What about Kaduna that I can see on this schedule.
SAN Ananaba: My lord we are not presenting Kaduna today.
Justice Tsammani: Okay SAN Ananaba: My lord we would tender 23 LGA of form EC8Cs in Ekiti State today.
INEC: My lord, may I hand over to my respectable colleague Wendy Kuku It’s like INEC is tired This INEC lawyer is fine oh, Wendy Kuku is entering my eye Wendy with a Cinderella voice: My lord, we object to the documents tendered by the petitioners and we would profoeerrrr (that’s how she said it oh, the phonetics is from heaven) and we would profoeerrrr our reasons in a final written address. Tinubu and Shettima: My lord, we oppose to these documents and we would state our reasons in a final address.
Justice Tsammani already started moving on to admit the documents APC lawyer is on his feet APC: My lord, I have not stated my objection
Justice Tsammani: Don’t worry Kazeem, we know what you want to say Justice Ugo: We have helped you write it already. Don’t worry Of course, he wanted to say “we OBJECT to the documents tendered by the petitioners’
SAN Ananaba: My lord we would tender the form EC8Cs for 25 LGA in Delta State
Justice Tsammani: Go ahead All respondents have objected to these documents being tendered by SAN Ananaba for Labour Party and Peter Obi and have stated that they would state their reasons at the final stage.
Even INEC fine lawyer Wendy objected. She has fallen my hand sha….😂
Justice Tsammani: These documents of forms EC8Cs are now admitted as evidence before the court and tagged as exhibits.
SAN Ananaba: My lord let us accommodate my request to move back to the 4th schedule to tender the form EC8Ds
Justice Tsammani: Page what SAN Ananaba: Page 76 my lord I wish to tender the form EC8Ds of the 36 States AND the FCT My lord AND the FCT SAN Ananaba is shaking tables Why is he shouting AND FCT like that The justices are all laughing.
SAN Ananaba has now tendered the form EC8Ds All the respondents have objected to the admissibility of these documents in court.
Justice Tsammani: The form EC8Ds for Katsina State is 2 here but you wrote 4 SAN Ananaba: My lord it is 2
Justice Tsammani: So you will bring the remaining 2 SAN Ananaba: No my lord. It’s just 2 there’s no other one
Justice Tsammani: Document of form EC8Ds of the 36 states of the federation and the FCT have now been tendered to the court as evidence and admitted as PDE1 to PDE37.
Wahala in the courtroom
SAN Ananaba: My lord, we would now tender the National Results of the 36 States and the FCT and I’m sure nobody would object to this one. It’s just one document and it’s a national document.
INEC for the first time ever did not object
INEC: My lord, the 1st respondent do not object and we give our consent
Tinubu and Shettima: My lord we object The whole courtroom is laughing A lawyer at the back: You’re objecting to the document that announced the person you’re defending.
Tinubu lawyer: Oh my lord, no I don’t object. I was not paying attention and was looking at a document. I have no objection. I do not object my lord
Justice Tsammani: When you’re already used to saying objection
APC: I don’t object my lord. We give consent to this document.
Justice Tsammani: Documents of form EC8E tendered to the court has now been admitted and tagged as exhibits.
SAN Ananaba: My lord, let’s go on because I want to tender forms EC40G The whole courtroom is murmuring APC: Ahn Ahn are you not tired
Justice Tsammani: Please we are tired oh Have pity on Kalu
SAN Ananaba: Kalu just celebrated his 70th on Saturday, he’s now on the 7th floor but he’s not tired.
Justice Tsammani: Me I’m on the 6th floor and I’m already tired. I am sure he’s tired since he’s in his 7th floor, see Pinhero too is tired Pity us
SAN Ananaba: Please we don’t have time let’s continue Justice Tsammani: We have been here since 9am, you just came this afternoon Please let’s adjourn.
SAN Ananaba: Okay my lord, as you wish. Labour Party Lawyers are not tired oh They want to close the court by 4am
SAN Ananaba: Okay my lord, we would move to adjourn
Justice Tsammani: Don’t worry, nobody will object to adjournment So justice Tsammani has now adjourned the case to tomorrow 8th June 2023 by 2pm.
Good Night…..!!!
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