Buhari, Atiku: What next after judgement?
Senior Correspondent ERIC IKHILAE examines the significance of the judgemnt of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal and its implications for democratic consolidation
From 4pm till late Tuesday night, court officials and media men were busy putting things in place. With the permission of the court’s authorities, three television stations were authorized to relay the delivery of the judgment live. In no time, the large courtroom became packed with lawyers, reporters politicians and their supporters, many of whom, the security personnel later restricted to the foyer.But, unlike the previous court sessions, majority of prominent politicians, who witnessed the proceedings, were member of the All Progressives Congress .
All the politicians in attendance sat in the same corner of the court, with Dokpesi sitting directly behind Kyari for the entire length of the proceedings. None exhibited any sign of animosity. They conversed, laughed and held hands.Although the judgment went against them, it was not an entirely a bad day for the petitioners as they recorded some pluses.
He said the court is not to determine whether or not a petitioner or a candidate who lost an election was qualified to have contested the election. In their effort to establish their claim of the existence of a server, into which INEC allegedly transmitted election results electronically, the petitioners called, as their 59th witness, David Njorga, who described himself as a Kenyan Information and Communication Technology expert.
The judge noted: “ The information he relied, was found on a website, whose owner he did not know. As can be seen from the evidence of PW59 , it cannot, by any stretch of imagination, be considered as an expert evidence, because it did not contain any information, he got personally from INEC website, but from a third-party source, an unreliable source, who is anonymous, cannot be believed. It is the said whistle-blower that ought to give the evidence in this case.
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