Mr Melaye alleged wrongful computation of the results of the presidential election while testifying as a star witness of the PDP and Atiku at presidential election court on Friday.
A former senator, Dino Melaye, on Friday, appeared before the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja as a witness in the petition filed by Abubakar Atiku and the Peoples Democratic Party to challenge the outcome of the February presidential poll.
Led in evidence by the petitioner’s lead counsel, Chris Uche, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria , Mr Melaye who told the court that he was PDP’s National Collation Agent, identified himself as a businessman and a politician. The witness further said that the results brought to the national collation centre by state electoral officers were at variance with the results recorded in the state.Mr Melaye said that he had three major grouses with the conduct of the election one of which was the refusal of INEC to transmit the election results electronically to its portal.
Under cross examination by President Tinubu’s counsel, Akin Olujinmi, also a SAN, Mr Melaye said that the failure of INEC to transmit results from Form EC8As to its IReV was an infringement of the law. He said electronic transmission of results from the polling units unto the IReV was a very important aspect of the election process, adding that without that, the election circle could not be said to have been completed.
The five-member panel led by Haruna Tsammani then discharged Mr Melaye from the witness box after all the respondents had questioned him.The petitioners also tendered two sets of documents acquired from INEV via a subpoena issued on 26 May at Friday’s proceeding.
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