Presidential election petition court adjourns sitting

The presidential election petition court has resumed sitting after a one-week break from the Eid El Kabir holidays.

The Labour Party and the PDP had closed their cases after calling 13 and 27 witnesses respectively.

However, the Independent National Electoral Commission will today open its case against the petition filed by the Labour Party and the PDP by tendering evidence and calling witnesses to defend its conduct of the presidential election.

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The election petition court has now adjourned till 4th July for the Independent National Electoral Commission to open its defence against the petition filed by the Labour Party.

The adjournment was due to the absence of the first witness the commission had sought to call.

INEC Counsel,  Abubakar Mahmoud informed the court that their first witness is unavoidably absent from court.

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Mahmoud noted that the commission intends to call a total of 3 witnesses to its defence.

The court subsequently adjourned till 4th July for the commencement of defence by INEC.

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It then proceeded to recess to reconvene at 2 pm for the petition filed by the PDP.