Returning Officer Tells Tribunal, How They Transmitted Election Results to INEC Server
Returning Officer Tells Tribunal, How They Transmitted Election Results to INEC Server
Adejuyitan Olalekan, a Presiding Officer during the February 23 presidential election, on Monday told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja that he personally transmitted the results collated at his polling unit during the poll.
Olalekan was called to the witness stand as the petitioners’ third witness at the instance of the Peoples Democratic Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who are by their petition challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress.
He was led by the petitioners’ lead counsel, Livy Uzoukwu (SAN), to adopt his witness statement on oath as his evidence-in-chief, but was not asked to mention the sta...