Learned Silks Eyes on the Judiciary

VAR Screens Present Peter Obi is present Labour Party is also heavily present Today would be explosive

The original learned silks😅 I am now a learned silk by association

You know when the court is about to seat, someone runs around with one staff that looks like coat of arms. That’s a mace The way this man always run around with it, I hope he doesn’t fall in the court one day. He’s always so cheerful but serious. It’s really amazing. I have applied for the job, because I want to be running around with that mace both in the courtroom and in my house. Why wipe someone with oraimo cord, when you can wipe them with a thick aluminium mace 🥹.

The judges are coming and our friend is currently running around with the mace 🥹 The judges are now seated. Justice Adah: Good Morning everyone, I hope we will get your full cooperation today. The clerk has now called the case. Peter Obi is up on his feet with the microphone Peter Obi with a huge smile on his face: Respectfully my lord, I am Mr. Peter Gregory Obi and I am representing the petitioners. Saturday Monsigne Esq: Deputy Director Legal Services APC INEC is absent today, wow I wonder why😏.

Lead Counsel: Labour Party - SAN LIVY UZOUKWU INEC - SAN AB MAHMOUD Tinubu and Shetimma - SAN AKIN OLUJIMI APC: SAN LO FAGBEMI

SAN Livy is now up to kickstart the proceeding SAN Livy: My lord we are now ready to start and my learned brother SAN Ikpeazu will kickstart the proceeding. SAN Ikpeazu has now collected the mic SAN Ikpeazu: Quickly my lord, so we would now call the subpoenaed witness Professor Eric Wow Labour Party came with a witness today Amazing

The Secretary has now sworn in the witness. I will omit the information of his full name and address SAN Ikpeazu: Tell the court what you do Witness: I am a professor of mathematics at Anambra University Wahala INEC’s lead counsel AB Mahmoud just cuts in SAN Mahmoud: My lord I have just been served this morning in court just a few minutes with the sworn written statement of the witness now on the stand and I can see from the witness statement which I have now even been able to read through that there are 6 or about 7 appendices and this obviously is a star witness To be honest I and my team are handicapped on how to proceed this morning with this witness. I would have thought that the counsel in the spirit of cooperation that this should have been given to us in good time because it’s not about ambush or taking us by surprise so if the counsel wants to continue with this witness, they should step him down and give us all the documents to allow us proceed properly This is my humble prayer to the court. Thank you my lord. ‘Wow, whaluurrrr’ Tinubu and Shettima’s lawyer is now up

SAN Olanipekun: My lord, I will agree with my colleague to step down this witness so that we can study this document. He should be stepped down for a few minutes like my colleague states. INEC lawyer cuts in INEC: I didn’t say minutes, I don’t know where Olanipekun got that, I am not a genius like you. The rules are clear, we need 48 hours. Justice Tsammani: You say the rule says 48 hours, which rule says that INEC: The schedule my lord, it states 48 hours for expert witness also the federal high court rules states the same ‘The whole court is now murmuring’ Hmm wahala

Tinubu and Shettima’s: My lord, I just spoke with my colleague, the witness can go on but we will not cross examine him today but much later because we would not be ambushed APC lawyer is now up SAN Fagbemi: My lord, we were also served this witness disposition a few minutes before the court sat. That as it may, we align ourselves with e submission of Chief Olanipekun that subject to your lords submission, the witness can continue but we will cross examine him later and not today. SAN Ikpeazu: We can go on with the witness adoption today. I am waiting for Mahmoud to confirm that we can go on with the adoption.

SAN Mahmoud: My lord the witness can fo on with the adoption but the cross examination like my colleagues have said would not happen today. SAN Ikpeazu: My lord, we can go on with the adoption while we take the cross examination in 1 to 2 hours. This witness just responded yesterday and we came in immediately with him. All the respondents have the best SANS at hand 😏 So I believe 1 to 2 hours would be okay for their best minds to cross examine this witness. ‘Wahala, see whyning’😅

Hmm The judges are now discussing heavily with each other with stern faces. Justice Tsammani: In the interest of everyone, we have agreed to have the witness statement today while cross examination would be tomorrow. All the APC lawyers are heavily nodding their heads in confirmation INEC lawyers can be seen still murmuring with each other. SAN Ikpeazu is now up to continue with the witness.

SAN Ikpeazu: Where do you work Witness: I am a Mathematician at Nnamdi Azikiwe University LP: Do you recognise your statement Witness: Yes I do, with my signature and what I wrote. LP: So do you adopt this document with you as your statement Immediately Tinubu’s lawyer stands up and cuts in Olanipekun: My lord we object. We object to this adoption of the witness statement. I was waiting for Mahmoud to rise but we’ll, we object to this adoption. ‘Wow, SAN Objection’ INEC’s lawyer is now up SAN Mahmoud: My lord we also object to the adoption of this witness and would state our reasons at the stage of address. Wahala 🤣🤣🤣 APC: My lord we also object to this adoption of the witness. ‘Some lawyers are paid to be shouting objection objection objection 😅’

SAN Ikpeazu is now up with a huge smile on his face. SAN Ikpeazu is now reading the Electoral Act that states a witness is mandated to present statements and also cross examination process. LP: Do you adopt your evidence in chief Witness: Before the adoption I want to make a clarification on page 5 Justice Tsammani: No you cannot make corrections, you have adopted SAN Ikpeazu: My lord, the witness is allowed to point out the few areas that he wishes to correct just like we have done previously before he adopts. Justice Tsammani: Okay LP: So proceed witness Witness: In bracket, C table 3 that shows Rivers State document should be replaced with c table 2 and 3 of Benue state documents Justice Adah: What of the E or F which one is supposed to be there Witness: E has sub documents and that entire segment is for Benue Justice Tsammani: That’s an alteration SAN Ikpeazu: No my lord, it’s an amendment, it’s a typographical error Justice Tsammani: The only way I can accept this is if he withdraws the statement while you can and correct what you need corrected I cannot use pen to alter my document SAN Ikpeazu: My lord, we have done this before, he has not adopted the statement yet. He can make corrections when needed. It’s just one line of table 2 and 3. That’s all. It can be corrected. We have made corrections before with statements in this courtroom. INEC’s lawyer is now on his feet Hmmm problem.

SAN AB Mahmoud INEC: The only way we can accept is if he withdraws the statement. He should withdraw and make all his corrections and come back another time. SAN Ikpeazu is about to stand INEC: Learned colleague please I’m still on my feet. This correction is too substantive and we won’t allow it. SAN Ikpeazu is now up SAN Ikpeazu: Corrections to statements have been done here before, just before adoption of statement I don’t see the issue now. INEC Mahmoud: My lord, we leave it to your discretion but I have made my stance known. Tinubu lawyer: My lord, we leave it to your discretion. APC: My lord we leave it to your discretion. ‘It’s obvious now that they are doing all these to waste the time of Labour Party’s lawyers, the shorter time Labour Party lawyers have, the better it is for the respondents, so they are willing to waste that time’ One INEC baby lawyer sitting beside me has just stood up to show AB Mahmoud something in his laptop as related to this witness. It’s my fault na, I allowed him charge the laptop with the socket beside me. He will come back and meet me here😒. SAN Ikpeazu is now up with a huge smile LP: We allowed Olanipekun make corrections before, so there should be no problem.

Justice Tsammani: Let him make the corrections and let’s proceed SAN Ikpeazu: Thank you my lord, you can see the whole page there is written Benue, so that statement beneath that shows Rivers is typographical, so just change it as Benue. Justice Tsammani: Go ahead SAN Ikpeazu: So witness do you now adopt your witness statement Witness: Yes I do ‘Congratulations oh😅’

SAN Ikpeazu: On paragraph 4 on page 3 paragraph B(b) you mentioned 18,088 blurred Polling Unit result. You did. Witness: Yes I did. Justice Tsammani: Where is it SAN Ikpeazu: Paragraph 9 i, ii and iii my lord. We would now tender all these documents. We have gone extra miles of making copies for our learned friends on the other side so that we don’t need to apply again to make copies. The clerks are now taking the copies from Labour Party and Peter Obi’s lawyers to distribute to all respondents. Ladies and gentleme, have you seen an encyclopaedic dictionary 😭😭😭 Put 10 of it on top each other. That is how the document for this witness is 😭😭😭 What kind of wickedness is this. The judges are all laughing. INEC lawyers are looking with surprise and shock. Labour Party what is this At this point the whole court is laughing. When do you expect them to finish reading this document 😭🤣😭

SAN Ikpeazu: My lord, we are kind enough to make them copies, so they won’t stress themselves. SAN Ikpeazu is not nice😭 What is this. Justice Tsammani: Incan see how nice you are. You are very nice with this loads of documents 🤣🤣🤣 The whole courtroom is laughing. INEC: My lord, we object to this loads of documents 🤣🤣🤣 Tinubu’s lawyers: My lord, when I saw these buckets this morning, I thought Ikpeazu’s daughter is doing wedding and he’s sharing asoebi for the wedding 😅 We object to all these documents. It cannot even contain their buckets 🤣🤣🤣 SAN Ikpeazu: It’s your colleague that’s doing wedding na APC lawyer SAN Fagbemi stood up with a no smiling face and ended all the jokes immediately: We object to this and we would give our reasons in full at the final address. ‘What is this 🤣😅🤣’ I wish I can take a picture of the documents so that you all can see it. When would the respondents be done going through it 🤣 Is that how much INEC stole the election. This evidence from the witness😭😭😭

The judges are currently looking through the documents to understand. I doubt they can understand it today oh😭🤣😭 So the whole courtroom is just calm while the judges are looking through. Justice Ugo: This is what Igbo men would see and shout Odiegwu 🤣 SAN Ikpeazu: My lord, that’s why we explained all the appendix in the report so that we can avoid any form of Odiegwu😅 Justice Tsammani: We would sort out this later, we will rise for 5 minutes and come back 😭🤣😭 The court is now going for a 5 minutes break.