A staff of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Egwumah Omachonu has testified before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC that he was unable to transmit presidential election results to the server of the commission, despite being able to transmit those of the Senate and House of Representatives.
A summoned witness, who was an ad-hoc staff of INEC during the February 25 election, said the poll was peaceful, but that presidential results couldn’t be transmitted alongside others.
The witness, a presiding officer of INEC, was led in evidence by lead counsel to the petitioners, Atiku and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chris Uche.
Another summoned witness, a presiding officer at one of the polling units in Bauchi State, Grace Timothy, told the tribunal that the election was peaceful and went well.
Earlier, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, APC kicked against bid by presidential candidate of the PDP, Abubakar Atiku, to engage INEC ad-hoc staff to give evidence in his petition.
