More Trouble For INEC As Court Admits EU Report On 2023 Election In Evidence

The Presidential Election Petition Court set Monday, July 3 for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to present their case in defence of the petition brought by the petitioners contesting the results of the February 25 election in which Bola Ahmed Tinubu was declared winner.

VerseNews Nigeria reports that the electoral commission was scheduled to present their case against the petition submitted by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Monday morning.

A.B. Mahmoud {SAN}, the attorney for INEC, revealed to the court during Monday’s hearing that the commission had scheduled three witnesses to testify in support of their case.

He, however, said that the witness who were scheduled to testify were unavoidably absent from the court.

He thereafter sought that the matter be moved to the next day.

The PEPC, headed by Justice Haruna Tsammani, heeded the request following the agreement of other parties in the case

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Briefly after the hearing, one of the legal counsels to the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar revealed that a witness presented by the  (INEC), stated that only 31% of the 2023 presidential election result uploaded on the INEC Server, is mathematically accurate.

Speaking to our journalists the legal counsel said: “We are very happy, that today, the final report of an international observer group, accredited duly by INEC, that is the European Union Observation Mission, their final report was today tendered and admitted in evidence by the court.

“And you see that the witness who came from INEC, a director, read out the findings in that reports, which clearly stated that the election fell below expectations, and that only thirty-one percent (31%), of what was reported was mathematically accurate. So, we think that this is a very good one”.