President Muhammadu Buhari objected on Monday to the admission of his form, CF001, which contained his personal data submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the February 23 presidential election.

Buhari’s objection was announced at the resumed hearing of the petition filed by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

Buhari’s lead counsel, Chief Wale Olanipekun (SAN), while objecting to the admission of the form, stated that his reasons would be made public at the address stage.

Atiku and his party had tendered Buhari’s form towards establishing their petition against Buhari on his qualification for the last presidential election.

The second-runner up in the 2019 general poll, also tendered the final result of the election as signed by the INEC boss, Professor Yakubu Mahmood. The tribunal already admitted that in evidence as exhibit.

Also tendered and admitted as exhibit are documents containing total number of voters in the INEC register and the number of collected permanent voters card for the elections.

Atiku’s lead counsel, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu equally tendered six Newspapers publications and 10 press statements issued by INEC in respect to the election.

So far, about 6,806 election result sheets from Kano and Zamfara States were tendered and admitted by the tribunal in evidence.

With the tendering of election results over, PDP and its candidate, Atiku began the calling of witnesses to testify to their allegations of election malpractices, corruption, irregularities and violence in the conduct of election that produced Buhari as President.

The first Witness was Buba Galadima.

Buba Galadima was the National Secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, party, formed in the run-up to the 2011 national elections as a leading platform for President Muhammadu Buhari.