The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, on Friday, gave the candidate of Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, an approval to tender two videos clips in evidence to support the case he filed to challenge the outcome of the 2023 presidential election.
Obi, who is insisting that he won the presidential contest that held on February 25, tendered the video recordings, which were contained in two flash drives, through a member of his legal team, Mr. Jubril Okutekpa, SAN.The LP candidate had at the resumed proceedings in the case, notified the court that he subpoenaed Channels Television to produce the recordings.
“Two separate subpoenas, dated May 30 and June 6, were served on the TV station”, he said sending one of its staff members, to tender the requested evidence. 
The Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel admitted the subpoenas in evidence and marked them as Exhibits PBH-1 and PBH-2.The court, thereafter, summoned Mr. Lucky Obewo-Isawode, who identified himself as a Senior Reporter/Editor at Channels TV, to mount the witness box.
However, counsel for President Bola Tinubu, Chief Akin Olujinmi, SAN, said he was opposed to the court allowing the witness to either testify or tender any evidence in the matter. “A petition which fails to comply shall not be accepted, that is what the law says. My lords, it was after the proceeding started today that the statement of this witness was served on us.”
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, through its own lawyer, Mr. Kemi Pinhero, SAN, also argued that Obi and LP should have listed the proposed evidence in their petition adding that the witness was not competent to testify in the matter since his written statement was not front-loaded at the time the petition was filed.
