No fewer than five ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, are set to appear before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC as special witnesses in the petition against President Bola Tinubu.
A former Vice President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, filed the petition to challenge the outcome of the 2023 presidential election.
The INEC ad hoc staff, who participated in the conduct of the disputed presidential election results, are to testify against the All Progressive Congress, APC candidate in the last election.
Atiku, who came second in the presidential contest that held on February 25, had in the joint petition he filed with his party, alleged that the election was rigged in favour of Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of installing a third-party device to “manipulate” results of the February 25 poll in favour of ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Bola Tinubu.
Atiku lodged the allegation in a 66-page document filed before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja.
Vanguard reports that in the petition marked CA/PEPC/05/2023, Atiku and the PDP listed INEC as 1st respondent, APC as 2nd respondent and Tinubu as 3rd respondent.
According to Atiku, the said IT Consultant, Suleiman Farouk, ensured that the device was intermediated between the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and the INEC Result Viewing (IReV) Portal, known as Device Management System (DMS).
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