The National Collation Agent of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the February 25 presidential election, Dino Melaye, has told the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, that the result used to declare Bola Tinubu as the president by the electoral commission was fraudulent and wrongly computed.
Melaye, on Friday, testified as a star witness in the petition by the PDP and its presidential candidate in the election, Atiku Abubakar, seeking the nullification of Tinubu’s declaration as winner of the 2023 presidential election.
Led in evidence-in-chief by Atiku’s lead counsel, Chris Uche SAN, the witness said he refused to sign the final collated results so as not to be part of the fraud and malpractices that allegedly marred the collation process.
He said the results of the presidential election “were wrongly computed by INEC.”
“I didn’t endorse it, because I don’t endorse fraud,” he stated.
He also told the court that aside from himself, many agents of the PDP in the presidential election did not also sign the results at various levels.
While responding to questions from Tinubu’s lawyer, Akin Olujimi (SAN), the witness argued that “failure of transmission of what has been recorded is an infringement of the law.”
Besides, he argued that the election circle could not be said to have been completed without the electronic transmission of results from the polling units to the INEC results viewing portal.
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