Poor scheduling of documents has made the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) stop hearing the petition filed by Peter Obi and the Labour Party for the third time this week.
The Chairman of the court, Justice Haruna Tsammani, said at the resumed hearing on Thursday, that he had to step the petition down on account of poor scheduling of documents the petitioners sought to tender to prove their allegation of electoral malpractices during the Feb. 25 presidential election.
The court observed that the documents were not properly scheduled as it had ordered counsel to do.
There was confusion arising from discrepancies noticed as Emeka Okpko, SAN from the Obi legal team attempted to tender documents from the 23 local government areas of Benue.
All efforts to reconcile the discrepancies and reschedule the documents failed, forcing the judges to rise for about 15 minutes to allow the petitioners to rectify the confusion.
The court asked Okpoko to rather file a different schedule of documents he had prepared which the court said was easier to understand than the earlier filed schedule.
The five Justices then retired to their chambers to await the time the legal team would put its house in order.
Both Obi, his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, the suspended Chairman of the party, Julius Abure and other Labour Party members were watching when the confusion
Obi and his party are before the election petition court challenging the election of President Bola Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima.
