Two ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) acting as subpoenaed witnesses of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have testified that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) failed to transmit the results of the presidential election after the collation.
The witnesses, Friday Egwuma and Grace Timothy testified before the Presidential Election Petition Court on Thursday, stating that the BVAS machine allocated to them developed a system error immediately after the results of the Senate and House of Representatives aspects of the poll were freely transmitted.
Atiku Abubakar and PDP’s lead counsel, Chief Chris Uche SAN led the witnesses in evidence.
According to their subpoena evidence, the two workers of the electoral body explained that they had to resort to other means of getting the results when it became clear that the BVAS machines would not help them.
Egwuma was a Presiding Officer in a polling unit in Abia State, and Timothy served INEC in Plateau State.
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During the hearing of Atiku’s petition challenging the outcome of the 2019 presidential election, the two witnesses testified that voting went smoothly in their respective places of work. However, they admitted that the BVAS machines failed to transmit the presidential election results.
Under cross-examination by Abubakar Mahmud SAN, Egwuma explained that he used an offline system in place of the BVAS machines.
Timothy on the other hand testified that the greatest challenge she experienced during the election was the uploading of the presidential election results into the I-rev portal.
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The witnesses were also cross-examined by Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN who stood for President Bola Tinubu and Prince Lateef Fagbemi SAN who represented the All Progressives Congress APC.
The Presiding Justice of the Court, Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, shifted further hearing in the petition to June 9.
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