The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has opened and closed its defence in the petition by Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC).
INEC’s lawyer, Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN, announced the closure of the first respondent’s case after the conclusion of the testimony of its sole witness, Dr Lawrence Bayode, a Deputy Director in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Department of INEC.
Before calling on its witness, INEC tendered some documents which were admitted and marked as exhibits.
Led in chief by Mahmood, the witness told the court that he worked for INEC for 24 years.
Under cross-examination by Patrick Ikwueto, SAN counsel for the petitioners the witness told the court that the testing of the software application for the election was carried out on Feb 4.
He added that there was a report on the testing but it was not with him in the court.
The petitioners, however, tendered the E- transmission saver Web and compliance form through the witness and was admitted and marked as evidence.
The witness told the court that the pre-production test was carried out before the election.
When asked if the hard copy of the results would be different from the ones in the IreV, he said no.
He, however, added that anything could happen when sending the results from form EC8A to the IreV.
