INEC chairman evading service of witness summon, Obi tells court
Peter Obi (left) and Mahmoud Yakubu. Labour Party candidate Peter Obi, who alleged that the 2023 presidential election was rigged, yesterday accused chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, of evading the service of a witness summon on him. Obi had through his team of lawyers, led by Dr. Livy Uzoukwu, SAN, obtained a subpoena to compel the INEC chairman to appear before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja. He wants the INEC boss not only to testify before the court as a witness, but also to produce and tender in evidence some sensitive materials used for the conduct of the presidential election. At the resumed proceedings in the petition lodged to challenge the declaration of President Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as winner of the presidential contest that held on February 25, Obi and his party told the court that all effort to serve a copy of the subpoena on the INEC chairman failed....