During the ongoing Presidential Election Tribunal in Abuja, it was revealed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that certain documents requested by Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, do not exist.
Mr. Obi and the Labour Party are disputing the election of President Bola Tinubu, filing a petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023.
Deputy Director of ICT at INEC, Mr. Lawrence Bayode, testified before the court, stating that out of the five documents requested by Obi, two were non-existent, and one was still being worked on.
One of Obi's witnesses, Ms. Loretta Ogah, an ICT cloud engineer and a former House of Representatives candidate for the Labour Party in Cross River, was cross-examined by the counsel for Tinubu and Shettima, Mr. Wole Olanipakun (SAN). Ogah explained that she filed a lawsuit against INEC after losing the election because her name was not listed on the INEC portal due to network failure.
Under cross-examination by Mr. Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), the counsel for the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ogah stated that no glitches occurred on the INEC portal on February 25. She also clarified that she was not an employee of INEC and, therefore, was not familiar with the organization's password protocol.
The court presided over by Justice Haruna Tsammani, adjourned further hearings to the following day.
Please note that the information provided is based on the ongoing proceedings and may be subject to updates as the case progresses.
