Edo: Ighodalo tenders more evidence in petition challenging Okpebholo’s election

• Asue Ighodalo presents additional evidence at the Edo governorship tribunal, including BVAS data and polling unit records
• Governor Okpebholo and APC object to the documents’ admissibility, with the tribunal provisionally admitting them as exhibits

At the Edo State governorship election appeal tribunal in Benin City on Saturday, Asue Ighodalo, the PDP’s candidate for governor, presented further documentary evidence against Governor Monday Okpebholo.

In the Edo State governorship election scheduled for September 21, Ighodalo and his party are running against Governor Okpebholo.

When they launched their case at the tribunal on Friday, they submitted more than 1,000 papers.

In Saturday’s proceeding, the petitioners’ counsel, Kenneth Mozia (SAN), tendered more evidence, including 55 Certified True Copies (CTCs) of polling Units voters register, CTCs of 56 accreditation figures of extracts from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Bimodal Voters Accreditation Systems Machines (BVAS), 72 CTCs of extracts of accreditation figures from the BVAS devices, 75 CTCs of INEC’s Results Viewing (IREV) Containing Form EC8A and 70 CTCs of INEC’s Polling Units Booklets, containing Form EC25B, among others.

However, the governor and APC objected to the admissibility of the documents.

The respondents said they would give their reasons during the presentation of their written addresses.

The tribunal chairman, Justice Wilfred Kpochi, provisionally admitted all the documents and marked the same as exhibits.

He adjourned the panel’s sitting till Monday.