ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday, opened and closed its defence in the petition filed by Mr Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC).
This came after INEC’s sole witness, Dr. Lawrence Bayode, a Deputy Director in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Department of INEC, testified before the tribunal.
Also, some documents were presented as evidence.
In his testimony, Bayode said blurred documents uploaded on the IREV does not affect the physical results recorded in Forms EC8As which are not blurred.
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He insisted that the images of Forms EC8A captured with BVAS and transmitted to IREV are not relevant for the collation of results.
Bayode told the tribunal that the glitch recorded during the last presidential election did not affect the collation of results of the election.
Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), the lawyer to President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima’s, also disclosed that his clients will open their defence in the petition on Wednesday, 5 July.