The reluctance of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) to transmit presidential election results on election day upset three Presiding Officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday, according to the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC).
The officers admitted that the results of the Senate and House of Representatives elections were uninterruptedly delivered and that technical difficulties developed when only the presidential vote results were relayed.
The three witnesses testified under subpoena at the current hearing of petitions challenging the outcome of the February 25 presidential election, admitting that the election process went well until the BVAS machines refused to work.
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Janet Nuhu Turaki, Christopher Bulus Ardo, and Victoria Sani are the three witnesses, who served as INEC Presiding Officers in Yobe, Bauchi, and Katsina States, respectively.
They had been invited by the Court in response to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Abubakar Atiku’s joint plea to appear before it and give testimonies of their experiences with results transmission during the previous presidential election.
Janet Turaki, who first testified in the petition filed by former Vice President Abubakar Atiku against the election, stated that while voter accreditation was satisfactory, the process became difficult when the election results were uploaded.
She stressed that, while the National Assembly election went off without a hitch, the presidential election failed and refused to work throughout the day.
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However, the witness informed the Court that the collated results in the forms EC8A were signed by the party agents as well as herself as INEC’s Presiding Officer.
Christopher Bulus Ardo testified in court that he felt unsatisfied with his duty with INEC on the election since he was unable to send the presidential election results as required by law.
In her own words, Victoria Sani stated that she could not recall who won the presidential election in Katsina State, but that all did not end well due to the failure to transmit the presidential component of the February 25 election.
Eyitayo Jegede SAN represented Abubakar Atiku and the Peoples Democratic Party as petitioners, Abubakar Mahmoud SAN represented INEC, Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN represented President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and Charles Edosomwen SAN represented the All Progressives Congress APC.
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Meanwhile, the Court’s Presiding Justice, Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, has set June 20 as the date for the petition’s continuation hearing.
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