Yakubu Busari
The Federal House Representatives, for Jos North /Bassa Constituency, Hon. Adamu Muhammad Alkali a candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party, (PRP) has tendered more documents in evidence at the National Assembly election tribunal sitting in Plateau State.
The documents tendered by Adamu Muhammad Alkali , PRP at the National election court are mainly results sheets, and INEC reports on the conduct of the 25th Day of February 2023 elections.
Adamu Muhammad and his People Redemption Party (PRP ), on Thursday, tendered more documents in evidence at Election Petition Court in Plateau state challenging the INEC, Musa Avia Agah, and Peoples Democratic Party , PDP over alterations, manipulation, mutilation of results in polling units.
The petitioners in the petition challenging the election, which brought the declaration of Musa Agah of the PDP into power to clinch the seat were counsel to Adamu Muhammad Alkali, Barr .M.S.Salisu told the court that the petition was slated for hearing and he intends to serve other counsels with certified true copies except No6 which they subpoena INEC to produce some documents.
However, he tenders the documents through the bar hoping to take two witnesses, but only one is available in court because he failed ill and he expunged EC8A of page 34/35.
The Tribunal Chairman Honourable Justice Williams Olamide judgments and marked it as exhibits, P1, to P29 , P36 respectively.
Salisu front loaded Mr Ahmed Adam as PW1, which statement is on pages 61-62, he is a businessman who lives in Rikkos of Jos North LGA of Plateau 35 years old as he also identified his signature.
Respondents to the petition are the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Musa Agah, PDP, and Pius Akubo argued that the witness statement was based on hearsay, who is a presiding officer in charge of 011 polling unit of Jos Jarawa .
The documents are mainly result sheets and INEC reports on the conduct of the Jos North, Bassa constituency election, tendering form, and reports prepared by the electoral body after the election.
Others are two Local Government Areas of Plateau State, were tendered and requested to interrogate INEC ICT experts
The court admitted all the documents in evidence and marked them as exhibits.
However, all the counsel objected to the admissibility of all the documents tendered but D.P. Dusu , Sunday Oyawole of INEC counsel all reserve the objections to the final address.
Meanwhile, the three-person panel led by William Olamide adjourned until Wednesdays for further hearing of the petition.
