Due to the ill health of two key staff in Labour Party’s Secretariat, the petition of the party’s Presidential Candidate was not heard this morning.
Counsel to Obi and the LP, Awa Kalu made this known at the resumed hearing of the case. He asked for an adjournment to June 1 for continuation.
Counsel to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abubakar Mahmoud, did not oppose the call for an adjournment but stated that it should be on record that the party had lost one day to call its witnesses.
Counsels to Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Wole Olanikpekun and Lateef Fagbemi, also did not oppose the adjournment.
The five-man panel of Justices led by Justice Haruna Tsammani subsequently adjourned the hearing of their petition to June 1.
The Labour Party had earlier called its first witness, a lawyer, Lawrence Nwakaeti.
The party has 49 more witnesses to call, while the PDP is yet to call a witness, but has tendered all its exhibits before the court.
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