The Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate in the February 23, 2019 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Monday, presented their first set of six witnesses at the Presidential Election
Petitions Tribunal in their bid to prove their petition challenging outcome of the polls.
He said his quarrel with Buhari arose from the alleged injustice in the President’s administration, lack of inclusiveness and failure of the administration to secure Nigeria. “She is a qualified Nigerian. She is a mature Nigerian and who by her right having worked for the President deserves to be appointed.
While being cross-examined by the All Progressives Congress’ lawyer, Lateef Fagbemi , the witness said he was not in the country when the Independent National Electoral Commission displayed the list of presidential candidates for the last election and so he could not have contested the President’s candidacy.
But Atiku and the PDP, in their petition filed on March 18 to challenge the outcome of the polls, contended that “from the data” obtained from INEC’s server, “the true, actual and correct results” showed that they polled a total of 18,356,732 votes to defeat Buhari whom they said scored 16,741,430 votes.But INEC had denied the existence of the server into which results were electronically transmitted.But the petitioners’ second witness, Mr.
He added that he was not stationed at any polling unit during the election but visited the ones where his attention was needed. He said he visited seven polling units in the course of the election. Testifying as the third petitioners’ witness, a Presiding Officer during the presidential election, Mr Adejuyitan Olalekan, also told the tribunal that he personally transmitted the results collated at his polling unit during the polls.Olalekan was not asked to mention the state or the polling unit where he worked during the polls.
But asked if he attached the code with which he claimed to have transmitted the collated results to his witness statement on oath, he said he did not but had it on his phone. The witness insisted that it was APO I’s duty to transmit the results into server when shown the guidelines issued by INEC to point out where it was stated as part of the duty of APO I to transmit results.
He debunked INEC lawyer’s suggestion that he appeared in court to testify because he was aggrieved by the outcome of the election.“Whether the PDP or the APC wins is not my concern, what I need is justice in my country.” But fielding question from Buhari’s lawyer, Yusuf Ali , the witness said he was still benefiting from the N-Power Scheme.
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