PEPC: Tinubu tenders 17 exhibits to defend his election victory
*As hearing continues President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, tendered 17 sets of exhibits in evidence to defend his eligibility to contest the presidential election held on February 25. Tinubu, who maintained that he is the bonafide winner of the presidential contest, through his team of lawyers led by Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, tendered from the Bar, certified copies of bundles of documentary evidence before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja. He adduced the evidence to defend the petition the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, filed to nullify his election victory. Among the exhibits that President Tinubu tendered before the court, included a letter dated February 3, 2003, which the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, wrote to the Consul General of the Embassy of the United States of America, in Nigeria, demanding his criminal record, as well as a reply the US Embassy sent to the NPF on February 4, 2003, which indicated ...