Election Tribunal: Peter Obi’s Counsel Request Petition Hearing Adjournment Due To Illness To Key Witness

Due to the illness of two important party secretariat staff members, the petition of the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, was unable to be heard this morning.

At the resumed hearing of the case, Awa Kalu, counsel for Obi and the LP, announced this. He requested that the meeting be continued on June 1.

Abubakar Mahmoud, one of the INEC’s attorneys, indicated that although he did not object to the request for an adjournment, it should be noted that the party had lost the opportunity to call witnesses by one day.

Wole Olanikpekun and Lateef Fagbemi, attorneys for Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC), also did not object to the adjournment.

The five-man panel of Justices led by Justice Haruna Tsammani subsequently adjourn hearing of their petition to June 1.

Labour Party had earlier called it’s first witness, a Lawyer, Lawrence Nwakaeti.

The party has 49 more witnesses to call, while the PDP is yet to call a witness, but has tendered all its exhibits before the court.