The All Progressives Congress
(APC) has filed a cross-appeal at the Supreme Court to counter the evidence of
three data analysts who testified for the petitioners at the Presidential
Election Petition Tribunal.
The witnesses are Segun Sowunmi,
a media aide to Atiku, David Njoga, a Kenyan and Joseph Gbenga.
This followed the petition filed
by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the last
presidential election, Atiku Abubakar.
APC through its counsel, Prince
Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), wants the Supreme Court to expunge the evidence of the
three Information Communication and Technology (ICT) experts who testified on
the existence of server allegedly used by the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) to store results of the February 23 presidential election.
They had in their testimonies
informed the tribunal that they analysed presidential election results states
by states and found discrepancies in the results credited to Atiku and APC
candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari.
They alleged that in the results
sheets they analysed, the votes of Atiku were deliberately depleted while that
of Buhari and APC were inflated.
The Kenyan expert in his evidence
said INEC used the server, saying that he penetrated it to obtain the alleged
authentic results of the February 23 presidential election, which ran counter
to the one declared by the electoral body.
But Fagbemi in the cross-appeal
prayed the Supreme Court for an order setting aside the evidence of the three
witnesses and the documents, including video clips tendered through them from
the bar.
Fagbemi also wants the apex court
to expunge their testimonies and documents from the records of the court for
being inadmissible in law.
The SAN sought an order of the
apex court to strike out Atiku’s allegations of electoral malpractices in 10
states of the federation on the grounds that the allegations of the electoral
fraud were vague and not specific as required by law.
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