Two officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Thursday, told the Presidential Election Petitions Court that they could not upload the February 25 presidential election results on the Result Viewing Portal (IReV) even though they were able to upload the Senatorial and House of Representatives results on the portal.
They disclosed this as the Labour Party (LP) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) called more witnesses to testify before the Tribunal in the case against the victory of President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
While the PDP summoned two witnesses, the LP summoned one witness.
The PDP’s witnesses were presiding officers during the presidential election in Abia and Bauchi States while the LP’s witness was a software engineer.
The proceedings began with the PDP calling two witnesses who were presiding officers. Both witnesses told the court that they could not upload the results of the presidential election on IReV unlike the Senatorial and House of Representatives results which were easily uploaded on the portal during the February 25 poll.
However, counsels for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), President Tinubu and the APC pleaded with the Tribunal not to adopt the submissions of the two witnesses, which caused the judges to take a recces for one hour.
