The Independent National Electoral Commission, has opened and closed its defence in Peter Obi’s petition challenging the result of the February 25 presidential election.
At the resumed proceedings, counsel for INEC, A.B Mahmoud, SAN, proceeded to close its defence in the petition after calling the first witness, Lawrence Bayode, an assistant director in charge of its ICT department.
Bayode who also testified yesterday in aid of the commission’s defence against the petition filed by Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party , said that even if blurred documents were downloaded from INEC’s Result Viewing portal, it will not affect the physical results as recorded in the polling units results, otherwise called form EC8A.
Bayode was led in evidence by the commission’s lead counsel, A.B. Mahmoud, SAN, who also tendered some documents in the course of the proceedings.
Similarly, when Bayode was examined by counsel for the All Progressives Congress, L.O Fagbemi, SAN, he told the court that the glitch recorded during the last presidential election did not affect the collation of the election results.
The petitioners also tendered the E- transmission saver Web and compliance form through the witness. It was admitted and marked as evidence.
The witness told the court that the pre-production test was carried out before the election.
The five-member panel headed by Justice Haruna Tsammani adjourned the court proceeding to tomorrow when Tinubu and his vice, Kassim Shetima will open their defence.
