The Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja on Saturday corrected the lawyer representing President Bola Tinubu, Emmanuel Ukala SAN, during cross-examination when he asked a polling unit presiding officer in FCT to confirm whether the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS machine she used at her polling unit could not transmit scanned copy of result sheet, but worked elsewhere and that 94.7 percent of the presidential election results is on the INEC Results Viewing Portal, IReV.

The subpoenaed witness(PW17),
Alheri Ayuba who said she served in the Federal Capital Territory was presented in court by the Peoples Democratic Party and Atiku Abubakar, as part of the witnesses for the petitioner.

At the resumption of sitting on Saturday, PDP counsel, Chris Uche SAN, said he would call more subpoenaed witnesses beginning with her.

Alheri Ayuba came up and adopted her statement on oath but the lawyers representing Tinubu, Kashim Shettima and All Progressives Congress asked the court not to take her testimony.

“Ruling on the objection will come at the delivery of final judgement,” Justice Haruna Tsammani held.

Under cross-examination, INEC counsel, Oluwakemi Pineiro asked the witness to confirm if she performed her duties diligently on the day of election and that election went on smoothly.

The witness agreed that the election went smoothly except with regards to the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machine which did not transmit scanned copy of results after she clicked “send” on the device.

On the usage of BVAS, APC lawyer, Emmanuel Ukala SAN asked the witness to confirm if when the BVAS failure to transmit results was resolved, it showed pending on the device and will be sent to the INEC Results Viewing Portal, IRev later.

“It’s not possible my lord; I could not log in on BVAS not to talk of sending the results,” the witness replied.

Ukala then put it to her that despite the glitch she experienced at her polling unit, a lot of presidential election results were successfully sent to IREV by BVAS machine.

He suggested to her that over 94.7 percent of the presidential election results is currently on IReV.

The witness said she wouldn’t know about that, adding “I only operated in my polling unit.”

But Justice Haruna Tsammani told Ukala to “limit” his cross examination to the polling unit where the presiding officer said she served.

He wondered how she can competently speak about results on IRev when she only served at a polling unit.

Ukala replied the judge that he only wanted to pass across his own position on the election to the open court.

The APC legal team asked her if she filled any INEC Form complaining about the BVAS despite Labour Party winning at her polling unit, to which she said there was a form for laying of complaint at the Ward collation centre and “I filled the form stating I was not happy that the BVAS did not transmit the scanned result.”

The APC insisted that the actual name of the presiding officer that operated at the polling unit she identified was Felix Blessing.

She disagreed.

Subsequently, the court discharged her from the dock.

Then came Sadiya Mohammed Haruna, a presiding officer in another polling unit in FCT

Under interrogation by INEC lawyer, Steve Adehi SAN, she admitted that everything went well in her polling unit except the BVAS transmission of result.

INEC accused her of not serving at the polling unit she identified because her appointment letter from the electoral commission stated “ward” but did not specify the polling unit.

She insisted that INEC deployed her to serve at her polling unit.

When Ukala’s turn came, he repeated same question he asked the first witness for today regarding results on the IREV.

“Not really sure. I am only concerned about my polling unit,” Haruna said.

The APC lawyer, S. Umoh SAN told her that the polling unit she mentioned was not the exact place she served.

She denied it.

The court subsequently adjourned to June 13 for continuation of hearing.

So far, the PDP has brought 17 witnesses, largely state collation officers and INEC ad-hoc staff, to substantiate their claim that the election was rigged.

https://thewhistler.ng/bvas-tinubus-lawyers-question-fct-presiding-officers-about-non-transmission-of-results-to-irev/
Mynd44
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I can see from the write-up that the aapc and eyeneck lawyers are employing bully as a tactics in a bid to subdue the testimonies of the witnesses. But they are failing woefuly.

They will fail at every attempt to subvert justice. Every stolen mandate must be returned

Are the so called lawyers crazy?

INEC and APC lawyers are deploying bully and delay tactics

YouandiAllofus:
I can see from the write-up that the aapc and eyeneck lawyers are employing bully as a tactics in a bid to subdue the testimonies of the witnesses. But they are failing woefuly.

They are succeeding sir.they all agreed that elections went on peacefully except for bvas which is a mechanical fault.

abobote:
INEC and APC lawyers are deploying bully and delay tactics

They are doing well.even if the testimony of the witness stick,it will only affect those units they served

So far so far, Atiku and Peter Obi have failed woefully to prove rigging. All their witnesses have only confirmed that election were held smoothly in almost all polling units and there were challenges uploading results from BVAS to IREV. Good enough, none of the witnesses have been able to prove that the results declared at the polling units were different from what was collated at the collation centers and the results eventually uploaded to IREV.

Apart from the PDP witness from Anambra that testified that PDP results were changed at collation centers in Anambra state where Labour Party got over 90% of the vote cast, nothing has been proved against APC.

garfield1:


They are succeeding sir.they all agreed that elections went on peacefully except for bvas which is a mechanical fault.

You know I am not surprised at all that these Obi supporters are not intelligently rationalising the events at the court. First they have all established that election went well. Secondly their problem was uploading results electronically, which is not compulsory as previous court judgments have stated. Thirdly, manual collation was done and none of the electoral officers has claimed so far that the results they handed in at ward collation was altered. The big problem with Obi and Atiku is that they cannot prove that the results were tampered with at the level of manual collation at the wards and LGAs and State levels. That is what they should be putting all their efforts at proving any irregularities. Not to prove that there was lack of electronic transmission. They know this. But they deliberately evade it, because there’s nothing to show that there was tampering with results at manual collation. If there was such thing, Obi would never have won in Abuja.

drlateef:




You know I am not surprised at all that these Obi supporters are not intelligently rationalising the events at the court. First they have all established that election went well. Secondly their problem was uploading results electronically, which is not compulsory as previous court judgments have stated. Thirdly, manual collation was done and none of the electoral officers has claimed so far that the results they handed in at ward collation was altered. The big problem with Obi and Atiku is that they cannot prove that the results were tampered with at the level of manual collation at the wards and LGAs and State levels. That is what they should be putting all their efforts at proving any irregularities. Not to prove that there was lack of electronic transmission. They know this. But they deliberately evade it, because there’s nothing to show that there was tampering with results at manual collation. If there was such thing, Obi would never have won in Abuja.

It's so tiring dealing with ignorant obidient mob

garfield1:


They are succeeding sir.they all agreed that elections went on peacefully except for bvas which is a mechanical fault.

Your point is well understood. But because elections are now being re-pictured to have went well "peacefully" doesn't eliminate the possibilities of electoral malpratices which alot is being unraveled at the moment with some states like rivers, sokoto etc.. already out in the open.

garfield1:


They are doing well.even if the testimony of the witness stick,it will only affect those units they served

You are right. Because the scope of your measurement is only on a small scale drawn from a hand-full of witnesses presented so far from a few polling units. However, it is well known that pockets of incidents like these occured on a national scale which the time-line for the tribunal may not permit so much of these witnesses on the failure of instantanous electronic transmission of results from the polling units.

YouandiAllofus:
Your point is well understood. But because elections are now being re-pictured to have went well "peacefully" doesn't eliminate the possibilities of electoral malpratices which alot is being unraveled at the moment with some states like rivers, sokoto etc.. already out in the open.

But we have not seen any evidence of rigging at all.

seunmsg:
So far so far, Atiku and Peter Obi have failed woefully to prove rigging. All their witnesses have only confirmed that election were held smoothly in almost all polling units and there were challenges uploading results from BVAS to IREV. Good enough, none of the witnesses have been able to prove that the results declared at the polling units were different from what was collated at the collation centers and the results eventually uploaded to IREV.


Apart from the PDP witness from Anambra that testified that PDP results were changed at collation centers in Anambra state where Labour Party got over 90% of the vote cast, nothing has been proved against APC.

What I see is that you are empty And shallow in thought . The witness right now is all about the uploading of the result to the I Rev . There is still the of rigging coming up which is entirely different from this one . That’s why U see lp submission of of election results from polling units to state level which true certified copies were gotten from inec. .
Shocker still coming

drlateef:




You know I am not surprised at all that these Obi supporters are not intelligently rationalising the events at the court. First they have all established that election went well. Secondly their problem was uploading results electronically, which is not compulsory as previous court judgments have stated. Thirdly, manual collation was done and none of the electoral officers has claimed so far that the results they handed in at ward collation was altered. The big problem with Obi and Atiku is that they cannot prove that the results were tampered with at the level of manual collation at the wards and LGAs and State levels. That is what they should be putting all their efforts at proving any irregularities. Not to prove that there was lack of electronic transmission. They know this. But they deliberately evade it, because there’s nothing to show that there was tampering with results at manual collation. If there was such thing, Obi would never have won in Abuja.

Be calming down. If really it is too sure for you on your permutations, you won't be this jittery . Why do I sense that your eyes are getting clearer to the truth by day, but you are vehemently trying to give your inner self a different narrative to stay in the murky waters?

YouandiAllofus:
You are right. Because the scope of your measurement is only on a small scale drawn from a hand-full of witnesses presented so far from a few polling units. However, it is well known that pockets of incidents like these occured on a national scale which the time-line for the tribunal may not permit so much of these witnesses on the failure of instantanous electronic transmission of results from the polling units.

So obi loses

YouandiAllofus:
Your point is well understood. But because elections are now being re-pictured to have went well "peacefully" doesn't eliminate the possibilities of electoral malpratices which alot is being unraveled at the moment with some states like rivers, sokoto etc.. already out in the open.

Nothing has been unravelled at the moment

duro4chang:
But we have not seen any evidence of rigging at all.

Meaning you haven't seen the bbc's explosive exposition of the massive electoral malpratice that ultimately produced weird margins in discripancies between inec's announced results from what was obtained from polling centres by party agents in rivers? Some polling units from sokoto was also in the news for similar reasons straight from the tribunal. While these may have only being few of such cases nation-wide, as proceedings continue, more are likely to follow. But lets not get ahead of ourselves and break the kolanut before the arrival of all the guests as the tribunal takes more evidences attesting to the existence of electoral fraud.

seunmsg:
So far so far, Atiku and Peter Obi have failed woefully to prove rigging. All their witnesses have only confirmed that election were held smoothly in almost all polling units and there were challenges uploading results from BVAS to IREV. Good enough, none of the witnesses have been able to prove that the results declared at the polling units were different from what was collated at the collation centers and the results eventually uploaded to IREV.

Apart from the PDP witness from Anambra that testified that PDP results were changed at collation centers in Anambra state where Labour Party got over 90% of the vote cast, nothing has been proved against APC.

Your comment has exposed you as a person who is not only partial, but a person who's brain reasoning power is 2kb ram.
But what do we expect from zombies? 🤣