A Presiding Officer during the February 23 presidential election, Mr Adejuyitan Olalekan, told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja, on Monday, that he personally transmitted the resul
ts collated at his polling unit during the poll.
Olalekan who was earlier led by the petitioners’ lead counsel, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu , to adopt his witness statement on oath as his evidence-in-chief, was not asked to mention the state or the polling unit where he worked during the poll.Under cross-examination by Buhari’s lawyer, Chief Wole Olanipekun , Olalekan, who said he was a lecturer at African Community of Inquiry College of Education in Enugu State, maintained that he personally transmitted the collated results at his polling unit.
But when asked by INEC’s lawyer, Yunus Usman , Olalekan said he did not have the name or the number of the server. 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.
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