A staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission,
(INEC), Abedemi Joseph on Friday told the Presidential Election Petition Court,
PEPC, that they were instructed by their employer not to give copies of
election results to political party agents who declined to sign the results.
The witness made the revelation while testifying in a
petition filed by a former Vice President and presidential candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Atiku Abubakar against the election of President
Bola Tinubu.
Led in evidence-in-chief by the petitioner’s lead counsel,
Chris Uche, SAN, Joseph prayed the court to adopt her witness statement on oath
as her evidence in the petition against the victory of Tinubu.
Joseph, who was a presiding officer in Niger State during
the February 25 presidential elections, told the court that she was satisfied
with the process as instructed.
She, however, said they were instructions not to give out
the results of the election to party agents who did not sign the result sheet.
Also testifying, a presiding agent in Edo state during the
election told the court that she tried in vain to upload the presidential
election results to the INEC server.
While another subpoena witness from Kogi State, Grace
Ajagbonna also affirmed the peaceful conduct of the election she said was not
happy that she could not upload the presidential election as instructed.
Ajagbonna, responding to INEC counsel as to whether she was
happy with the conduct of the election and her work as presiding officer, said,
” I was not happy that I was unable to transmit the result to the server.”
However, INEC, represented by Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN; APC,
represented by Lateef Fagbemi, SAN and other respondents objected to the use of
statements made on oath by the subpoenaed witnesses to be tendered at PEPC in
aid of Atiku’s petition.
Atiku’s lawyer, Chris Uche urged the court to discountance
their objections and grant his request.
The five-man panel headed by Justice, Haruna Tsammani
reserved ruling on the applications for later.
Meanwhile, the Court has adjourned further hearing to June
10.
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