Obi, Atiku Scores Not Affected By Glitch
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Mr Lawrence Bayode, a witness of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has said the technical glitch experienced in the uploading of elections results during the February 25 presidential election did not affect the actual scores of the presidential candidates.
Bayode, who is the Deputy Director of ICT of INEC spoke as witness of the Commission in the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku against the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the presidential election.
He was led in evidence by INEC’s lead counsel, Mr Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN.
However, under cross examination by counsel to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Wole Olanipekun (SAN) the witness, asserted that the presidential election was free, fair, credible and conducted in compliance with the Electoral Act, 2022.
He added that the technical glitch did not affect the scores of the candidates as the results were manually computed by polling officers in the forms EC8As at the different polling units.
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Tribunal Admits EU’s Final Reports
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The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on Monday admitted a final report of the European Union Election Observer Mission as exhibit, which faulted the outcome of the 2023 presidential election that produced Bola Tinubu and others.
The report tendered by former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was admitted as exhibit in spite of vehement objections by President Bola Tinubu, All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The European Union Election Observer Mission had, in the report, claimed that the presidential election did not show credibility, fairness, and transparency in the ways and manner it was conducted by INEC.
Gbadebo Petition Against Sanwo-Olu Stalls
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The petition filed by the governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, against the victory of Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his Deputy during the 2023 elections has been stalled, following the absence of the petitioner’s witness before the Election Petition Tribunal, presided over by Justice Arum Ashom.
So far, Rhodes-Vivour has called 10 witnesses to testify in support of his petition. The 11th witness would have appeared on Monday.
At a prior hearing, the petitioner stated that he would summon around 30 witnesses to testify in support of his petition. He also furnished the tribunal with approximately 20,000 papers.
The lead counsel for the petitioner, Olumide Ayeni (SAN), was absent from the proceedings on Monday, but the counsel who held his brief, Idowu Benson, told the Tribunal that the witness came to the court earlier but had to leave for medical attention when his health condition deteriorated before the day’s proceedings began.
UTME: There’s conspiracy to deprive my daughter of her success – Mmesoma’s father
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The controversy trailing the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, has taken a new dimension, with Mr. Romanus Ejikeme, the father of Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme whose claimed score of 362 is the subject of dispute has alleged that there is conspiracy to deprive her daughter of her hard earned academic success.
Reacting to the claim by JAMB that her daughter forged the score, Ejikeme said that her daughter had shown consistent academic brilliance right from her nursery school days.
According to him, Mmesoma had always placed first position in her classes.
Ejikeme said: “We are from Oduma in Aninri local government in Enugu State, but, we live in Uruagu, Nnewi.
“Mmesoma is my first child. She had always taken first position from the time she was in the nursery school at Ogbunike Central school.
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