W = witness; Bat/Shett = Tinubu and Shettima.
Bat/Shett: After conferring with my colleagues, the evidence of this witness is sufficient. WE WILL NOW END OUR CASE WITH THIS WITNESS.
APC: On a very sober reflection, it is our belief that there is no need to call any witnesses. We have decided that we have ESTABLISHED OUR CASE too.
Court: Do we take that to mean that we have closed our own case?
APC: yes. Case closed. If I were Livy, we would just withdraw our case.
Livy: So you are afraid of further damage to your case?
LP: The court made that order relying on money laundering provisions?
W: Section 982, not 981
LP: Give him Exh RA9, the letter from the IG of Police. Please confirm that you never saw the letter written by the IG of the police.
I saw it.
LP: Did you tender it here?
They tendered it.
LP: Did you see it?
I saw it, and it was tendered.
LP: Is that what you have?
W: What I have is the response.
LP: Does that make any reference to the Chicago case?
W: Yes, it does for the general record.
LP: You know what money laundering is?
W: Yes
LP: Kindly confirm before my Lords that this particular decision at the US Court has nothing to do with money judgement.
W: Yes
Bat/Shett: No re-examination, and we apply to discharge the witness.
Court: You are hereby discharged.
INEC We object to the admissibility of this document and will give reasons in the final address.
Bat/Shet: My Lords I don’t know why counsel failed to let my Lord know that they were already tendering an exhibit in this matter. (Noise from the court, people saying it’s a PDP matter.) Oh, from PDP matter. Anyway, we oppose it and will give reasons.
APC: We oppose and will give reasons.
Court: The CTC of the EU observation Report is Admitted as ExhX2.
LP: May I request the exhibit? I want to read page 60, paragraph 620. “By the time of the declaration of the result, more than a quarter of the results were missing on IREV and others were blurred without a good reason.”
LP: Please read paragraph 17 of the ECOWAS document he tendered.
“Incidents of violence and killings, including the murder of an Enugu senatorial candidate and five others who lost their lives in Kano due to the opposition party…”
I don’t agree because I will attribute it to IPOB.
LP: You do not have a licence to practise Law in the state of Illinois.
I have a licence to practise Federal Law across the United States.
LP: With the forfeiture of $450,000 in the account of 2nd Res, the courts made an order, which the court made as a result of proceeds of narcotics? Can you confirm?
W: Yes, I read it, and it represents Civil proceedings…
LP: You aren’t an IT expert, are you?
W: I am not
LP: Is it correct that you have not tendered any licence for you to practise Law in New York? Yes?
W: Yes
LP: I want to put it on record that the American Bar Association is a voluntary association.
W: It is a Voluntary association as long as you are a member of the bar.
LP: All through this presidential saga, have you accessed IREV?
I didn’t have any reason to
LP: Therefore, it is correct that since you haven’t accessed it, you are not in a position to say whether the results there are readable.
W: That’s incorrect.
LP: Have you read the order made by the court in Chicago?
W: Yes
Court: The American Bar Membership Card is admitted as RA28.
APC: As a member of the American Bar, do you know that Sen. Bola Tinubu is a citizen of Nigeria?
W: Yes
LP cross-examination
LP: In your witness statement on Page 136 of Para 56 (in Roman numerals), you mentioned that you are going to rely on international observers, is that correct?
W: Yes
LP: Take a look at this document.
W: Yes
LP: That’s the European Union report on The Nigerian election, right?
So it seems
LP: I seek to tender this document.
Court: But aren’t these the same cards?
APC: Yes
Court: Then why are you tendering both?
APC: Even if it’s one, it will suffice, my Lord.
They issue a new card every now and then.
Court: Which one is the latest one?
W: This one (proceeds to show the court)
INEC, BAT/Shett: No objection
LP: I vehemently oppose these purported membership cards.
Bat/Shett: in Paras. 19 and 114, where you referred to a letter from the 2nd Petitioner forwarding the membership list to INEC and also a register of members of the 2nd Petitioners from Anambra State as of April 25, 2022, If you see it, will you recognise it?
W: Yes
Bat/Shett: They are Exh RA17 and RA18. That will be all from our own part on the Examination in Chief.
Cross Examinations:
INEC: Distinguished senator, I have no question for you.
APC: Most distinguished senator, you were a former chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary And appointed majority leader of the APC just yesterday?
W: Yes
APC: Exh RA18, which you just confirmed as the register of members of LP, does not contain Peter Obi as a meme vet of LP?
W: Yes
APC: As a US practitioner, you know that there cannot be a charge, and apart from the charge, there cannot be a conviction.
W: Yes
APC: Look at Exh RA8 and RA9; as a practising attorney in the US and Nigeria, you know that those give the second respondent a clean record.
W: Yes
APC: Look at PA5. It does not contain a conviction or sentence on the face of it, right?
W: Yes
APC: Do you have your membership papers from the US?
W: Yes
APC: I seek to tender three documents evidencing membership in the New York bar as evidence.
Court: But this one looks like a complimentary card?
APC: No, but we won’t tender that one anymore.
Credit: Pearls TV. Edited by Ejes Gist News.
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