Lawrence Bayode, an assistant director with the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC), testified before the presidential
election petition court on Tuesday.
These are the highlights from the tribunal session.
‘ONLY POLLING UNIT RESULT SHEETS RELEVANT’
Bayode told the tribunal that only the result sheets from
polling units are used for the final collation process during elections.
The INEC witness said this while giving evidence in the
petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter
Obi.
Obi and the LP are challenging the election of President
Bola Tinubu.
Under cross-examination by Lateef Fagbemi, counsel for the
All Progressives Congress (APC), Bayode said blurred documents downloaded from
the result viewing portal (IReV) do not affect the polling unit results
recorded in Forms EC8A.
He said photographic copies of Forms EC8A(polling unit
result sheet) captured with the bimodal voter accreditation system (BVAS) and
transmitted to the IReV are not relevant for the collation of results.
Addressing the issue of glitches which occurred during the
election, the witness said performance, functionality and vulnerability tests
were conducted on the IReV before the election.
He said there was a possibility that an error could occur
when sending the results from Forms EC8A to the portal.
However, Bayode told the court that the glitches recorded
during the presidential poll did not affect the credibility of the results.
INEC CLOSES CASE IN
OBI’S PETITION
After calling just one witness, Abubakar Mahmoud, INEC
counsel, informed the court that the electoral commission would be closing its
case.
Previously, Mahmoud had indicated that the commission would
call three witnesses in its defence.
However, Bayode, a staff of the commission, was the only
witness called on Tuesday.
The president and vice-president are expected to open their
defence on Wednesday.
TINUBU OPENS CASE IN
ATIKU’S PETITION
President Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima also
opened their case in the petition filed by Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Tinubu through his lawyer, Wole Olanipekun, tendered several
documents in evidence including his academic records from the Chicago State
University.
A letter from the US embassy absolving Tinubu of any
criminal allegations in the US was also tendered.
The senior advocate also tendered six copies of documents
relating to immigration and visa records of trips made to the US by Tinubu
between 2011 and 2021, among other documents.
According to Olanipekun, a witness would be called at the
next tribunal session on Wednesday.
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