Tribunal Battle Continues: INEC Calls First Witness Against Atiku, PDP

 

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday called its first witness in the defence of the petition brought against it by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its 2023 presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar regarding the outcome of the February 25 polls.

This online media platform gathered that the witness, Dr. Lawrence Bayode summoned by the commission before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) sitting in Abuja, identified himself as an Information Technology (IT) Practitioner at INEC.

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Dr. Bayode was led in evidence by INEC’s lawyer, Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN).

Bayode, who said he has worked in INEC for 24 years, adopted his written deposition which he made on April 11, which he said the court should accept as his testimony in the case.

A copy of a cloud trail log and an accompanying certificate, in relation to the glitches that occurred in INEC’s system during the election were also tendered by the witness through the INEC counsel.

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Before the witness was invited, Mahmoud tendered, from the Bar, a certified true copy (CTC) of a letter dated July 6, 2022, from the All Progressives Congress (APC) acknowledged by INEC.

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