Mr Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) have prayed the court to hear motion originally filed on the 22nd May, 2023, seeking it’s leave to serve and deliver interrogatory letter on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The Petitioners informed the court that on June 2nd, they filed another motion seeking the leave of the court to hear the motion of 22nd May outside the pre-hearing section.
In the letter, the Petitioners poses 12 questions on while INEC has not responded on the issues of calling of subpoenas to testify in the petition against the outcome of the 2013 Presidential election.
Responding, INEC, through it’s counsel, Abubakar Mahmoud SAN, Wole Olanipekun SAN, counsel to Tinubu and Lateef Fagbemi SAN counsel to APC opposed the motion of June 2, stating that it was served on then on the same date.
They maintained that the motion is not yet ripe for hearing as they need to time to respond.
On the motion of 22nd of June, Mahmoud submitted the electoral empire has filed their responds on the 25 June.
“We are opposing the June 2 application and our objection will take care of that of 22nd May.
“We will file our reply within the time allotted to rules.
” We are ready to go on with the substantive matter. We have passed the stage of interrogatory. This move is a waste of time,” they submitted.
In the bench ruling, chairman of the panel, Justice Haruna Tsamani fixed 6th June for hearing on the motion.
