Petitioners’ Witness 62, Osita Chidoka, who served as the Peoples
Democratic Party’s collation agent at the National Collation Centre for
the February 23, 2019 presidential election, told the Presidential
Election Petition Tribunal on Friday that he had never seen the server
of the Independent National Electoral Commission.
But Chidoka
said INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, consistently told them about the
server and also acknowledged its existence during the collation of the
presidential election.
The witness who also said he served as
the head of the PDP’s situation room in Abuja where he was during the
election receiving reports from the party’s agent, spoke under
cross-examination by INEC’s lawyer, Yunus Usman (SAN).
He said,
“I have not seen the server but INEC consistently told us of the server
and the INEC Chairman at the national collation of results of the
election acknowledged the existence of the server.”
When asked, he said, “I was there when the results were collated.”
He acknowledged that the collation was done manually.
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