Bola Tinubu is set to on Tuesday, July 4 commence his defence against the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar challenging his declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC as President-elect.
This follows the close of defence by INEC, which is the 1st respondent in the petition. INEC called just one witness, an ICT expert, Dr. Lawrence Bayode, who testified that even if results were not electronically transmitted, it would not affect the integrity of the election.
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Bayode also tendered what he called a cloud trail log, indicating supposed glitches encountered in the process of upload of results.
But under cross-examination, the witness said the Commission did not make any report of the glitches to the INEC cloud services provider, Amazon Web Services Inc.
The witness was also made to read a part of the final copy of the report of the European Union Election Observation Mission report (EU-EOM) to Nigeria which stated that only 31% of the results formally uploaded on the INEC Results Viewing portal I-Rev were mathematically correct. But INEC, Tinubu and the APC vehemently objected to the admissibility of the report
Tinubu has five days to put up his defence at the Presidential Election Petition Court.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
