BREAKING: INEC Calls Witness Against Atiku, PDP's Petition

• INEC has opened its defence against the petition filed by Atiku Abubakar and the PDP at the presidential election petition court
• The electoral umpire called a witness in his defence, Dr Lawrence Bayode, who was the deputy director of IT with INEC
• Bayode said he had worked with INEC for over 24 years and defended the report that there were glitches while uploading the presidential election results on the commission's server

FCT, Abuja - The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has opened its defence against the petition of Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the presidential election petition court in Abuja on Monday, July 3.

According to The Nation, the electoral body called its first witness against the petition filed by the PDP and its presidential candidate against the outcome of the February 25 presidential election.

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Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN), counsel to INEC, called Dr Lawrence Bayode, who said he was an Information Technology (IT) Practitioner at INEC.

Bayode, led in evidence by Mahmoud, disclosed that he had worked with the commission for 24 years and adopted his written deposition on April 11, which stated that the court should accept his testimony in the case.

Mahmoud further presented, through the witness, a copy of a cloud trail log and a certificate that accompanied it in connection with the glitches reportedly that happened to INEC's server during the election.

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The SAN earlier tendered from the Bar a certified true copy of the letter dated July 6, 2022, from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and acknowledged by INEC.

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Then, there was an argument on how the evidence would be adopted for cross examination of the witness.

Atiku and the PDP had filed a petition before the court against the outcome of the February 25 presidential election that produced President Bola Tinubu.

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Legit.ng earlier reported that the former Senator Surajudeen Ajibola Bashiru has said that President Bola Tinubu and the APC will become victors at the end of the ongoing Presidential Election Petition Tribunal court.

Bashiru said the forfeiture case presented against Tinubu by the Labour Party happened in 1999, and the constitution stated that any convicted person could contest an election ten years after the conviction.

The senator maintained that both the PDP and Labour Party, as well as Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, did not prove to the court how they won the election.

Source: Legit.ng