The Presidential Election Petition Court has stepped down hearing in the petition filed by Mr Peter Obi and the Labour Party, against the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The petition was stepped down by the Court following poor schedule of documents being sought to be tendered to establish the allegations of malpractices during the February 25 presidential election.
When the matter came up, the Court discovered that the documents were not properly scheduled and a lot of discrepancies were uncovered from the documents from the 23 local government areas of Benue state.
However, Counsel for the petitioner, Chief Emeka Okpoko sought to use documents not filed to conduct the proceedings but the move was rejected on the ground of illegality.
The Court therefore stepped down hearing of the petition and ordered the legal team to re- file the schedule of documents in line with the provisions of the pre-hearing report.
Meanwhile, the five Justices led by Justice Haruna Tsammani have retired to their chambers to await the time the legal team would be ready for their petition.
