Presidential Election Petition Court Obi Peter Obi of Labour Party greeting lawyers at Presidential Election Petition court
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC told the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC on Tuesday that some documents requested for by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) at the 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi to prove its case against declaration of Bola Tinubu of All Progressives Congress, APC as the winner of the poll were are non-existent.
Giving evidence before the court, INEC Deputy Director, ICT, Mr Lawrence Bayode, said out of the five documents Obi asked for from the commission, two were non-existent, while one was work in progress.
One of Obi’s witnesses, Ms Loretta Ogah, an ICT cloud engineer, said she contested election into the House of Representatives on the platform of Labour Party in Cross River, but lost the election.
Ogah was cross-examined by Mr Wole Olanipakun (SAN), counsel for Tinubu and Shettima.
She told the court that she sued INEC after her loss because the electoral umpire did not list her name on its portal as a result of network failure.
Also cross-examined by Mr Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), counsel for APC, Ogah told the court that glitches did not occur on INEC portal on Feb. 25.
She said she did not know INEC’s password protocol as she was not INEC’s employee.
The court, presided over by Justice Haruna Tsammani, adjourned further hearing to Wednesday.
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