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PRESIDENTIAL POLL: Drama In Court Over Claims Of Deleted Results From BVAS
PRESIDENTIAL POLL: Drama In Court Over Claims Of Deleted Results From BVAS
There was a mild drama at the presidential election petition court (PEPC) yesterday over claims by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deliberately deleted presidential election results from the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines.
Atiku and presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, are currently before presidential elections petition court where they are contesting the emergence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as winner of the February 25 presidential election on the platform of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC).
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It started when Atiku’s witness, Hitler Nwuala, told the court sitting in Abuja that the electoral umpire deliberately deleted all the results of presidential elections from the BVAS machines of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) under the guise of preparing for the March 18 governorship election.
Nwuala, a forensic expert, who was the 26th witness for Atiku claimed that he inspected 110 BVAS devices used during the presidential polls in the FCT and all the machines he inspected had their data deliberately deleted.
But when counsel to INEC, Abubakar Mahmoud presented a BVAS machine to the court for demonstration, which he asked the witness to access and show proof that the data was deleted, Nwuala refused to operate the machine on grounds that it against professional ethics for him to do so in court.
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PRESIDENTIAL POLL: Drama In Court Over Claims Of Deleted Results From BVAS
