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Presidential election was well conducted, Atiku’s witnesses tell court

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Three witnesses called by Atiku Abubakar and his party, the PeoplesDemocraticParty (PDP) said on Friday that the exercise went well in the States where they served as election officials.

Grace Ajagbonna, Abidemi Joseph and Obosa Edosa, who testified before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) as petitioners’ subpoenaed witnesses, said they were ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and served as Presiding Officers in Kogi, Niger and Edo states.

Led in evidence by petitiners’ lawyer, Chris Uche (SAN), Ajagbonna, who featured as the 14th witness of the petitioners (PW14), adopted her written statement, which was  admitted by the court after the respondents registered their objection to its admissibility and promised to give reasons at the final address stage.

Under cross-examination by lawyer to INEC, Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN), Ajagbonna said she accredited voters, using the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) device and complied with all the instructions as was handed to them during training.

“The accreditation process went well. The voting process also went well. I collated the results and recorded them in Form EC8A by myself. I signed and the party agents also signed.

“At the end of the whole exercise, I took the Form EC8A to the Ward Collation Centre and submitted it to the Ward Collation Officer,” she said.

Ajagbonna said all other aspects of the election process went smoothly except the transmission of the presidential election result.

“My Lord, to be sincere, I was not happy. I was not happy that I was not able to rltrasnmit the result of the presidential election. Everything else went peacefully. The election went well,” the witness added.

 

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