OSOGBO—A Forensic expert Mr Pius
Bakare who is a witness of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, governorship
candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore, yesterday,
told the Osun State Election Petition Tribunal
that there were false entries during his scrutiny
of the election materials.

He also said he went beyond the mandate given
to him by his principal, as he carried out analysis
on all the 1,842 polling units as against only 912
unit in the 17 local government being challenged
by the petitioner.

Omisore and the PDP are challenging the
August 9 re-election of Governor Rauf
Aregbesola and the All Progressives
Congress,APC.
, while the Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC, isjoined as a party in the
matter.

At the resumed hearing of the petition on
Wednesday, Bakare under the fire of cross-
examination by the respondents’ counsel agreed
that once the data put in the computer to
produce his report were faulty, the report is also
faulty.

Bakare, who claimed to be an Information
Technology Expert, digital forensic expert and
document forensic expert was cross-examined by
Aregbesola counsel, Akin Olujinmi (SAN);
APC counsel, Professor Yemi Osinbajo,(SAN)
and the INEC counsel, Mr Ayotunde Ogunleye.
The witness, who had stated in his deposition
that his analysis covered only the polling units
being challenged, testified: “I read the petition
and the reply and ascertain that the petitioners
are challenging only 912 polling units, but I based
my inspection and analysis on 1,842 units.
“I agreed that I have gone beyond the mandate
given to me by the petitioners who gave me this
job to do. The extension cannot affect my
report”.

When he was taken up by Osinbajo, the witness
who recorded 222 as total votes cast for Ward 2,
Unit 5 Atakumosa East local government in his
report was confronted with the Certified True
Copies (CTC) of the result form for the unit and
he confirmed that the total votes cast there was
223, admitting that his record was finacurate.


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