Two subpoenaed witnesses of the presidential candidate of
the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in the February 25 Presidential election on
Thursday in Abuja admitted at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC)
that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) failed to transmit the
results of the election after the collation.
The witnesses, Friday Egwuma and Grace Timothy both ad-hoc
staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said the BVAS
machine allocated to them developed system error immediately the results of the
Senate and House of Representatives aspects of the poll were freely
transmitted.
In their subpoena evidence, the two workers of the electoral
body explained that they had to resort to other means of getting the results
when it became clear that the BVAS machines would not help them.
Egwuma was a Presiding Officer in a polling unit in Abia
State while Grace Timothy served INEC in Plateau State.
Apart from the failure of the BVAS machines to transmit the
presidential election results, the two witnesses admitted that voting went
smoothly in their respective places of work.
They were led in evidence by Atiku’s lead counsel Chief
Chris Uche SAN.
Under cross-examination by Mr Abubakar Mahmud SAN, who stood
for the electoral body, Egwuma explained that he resorted to an offline system
in place of the BVAS machines.
In her own testimony, Grace Timothy told the Court that the
greatest challenge she experienced during the election was the uploading of the
presidential election results into the I- rev portal.
The witnesses were also cross-examined by Chief Wole
Olanipekun SAN who stood for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Prince Lateef
Fagbemi SAN who represented the All Progressives Congress APC.
Meanwhile, further hearing in the petition has been shifted
to June 9 by the Presiding Justice of the Court, Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani.
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