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Jime, Ortom suit: Tribunal admits INEC voters’ register from 11 local govts

Voters Register from 11 local government areas, where Emmanuel Jime, is challenging the result of the 2019 governorship election.

The tribunal also held that PW15, Joe Abaagu, a legal practitioner, must not necessarily identify the voters’ registers one by one in the polling units complained of by Emmanuel Jime before they are admitted in evidence. Although INEC through its lead counsel, Rotimi Oguneso SAN, did not object, counsel appearing for Samuel Ortom, Sabastine Hon SAN and Oba Maduabushi SAN for PDP, raised objection to admissibility and procedure through which the documents were sought to be tendered.Hon said apart from one Voters’ register, Abaagu did not open the envelops to identify the other documents.He urged the tribunal to in the interest of justice reject the voters’ registers “except for those few documents we conceded”.

 

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