/ Jul 07, 2026
/ Jul 07, 2026

Labour party accuses INEC at Presidential Tribunal 

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The presidential election tribunal has resumed hearing and this time, its the turn of the Labour Party to bring forward its witness, Anthony Chinwo, a software engineer.

Under cross examination by counsels to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Chinwo says he conducted investigations around the uploading of results to the Irev portal by INEC and discovered that there was a deliberate attempt by the electoral umpire to sabotage the process.

This infuriates A.B Mahmood the INEC counsel who objectes and insists that from the documents presented before the court, INEC used the highest level of software security.

Proceedings resumed earlier today with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) calling its subpoenaed witnesses.

When the first witness Egwumah Friday came forward, there was no objection from the lawyers of the All progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The witnessed prayed that the court adopts his submission, following this prayer, the lead counsel of President Bola Tinubu, Mr Wole Olanipekun SAN objected to the motion for adoption of the PDP’s witness’ submission on the grounds that the party didn’t list him as part of their witnesses before the tribunal began.

Mr Olanipekun urged the tribunal to reject the application of Chris Uche (SAN) Counsel to the PDP, to admit the submission of the witness.

The counsel to INEC, A.B Mahmood (SAN) and that of the APC Lateef Fagbemi also agreed with Wole Olanipekun counsel to the president.

However, the five man panel of judges led by Justice Haruna stood down briefly for ruling on the matter.

Upon their return, the panel of judges allowed the subpoenaed witness to proceed with submissions.

Under cross examination, INEC’s counsel Friday Egwumah said as an adhoc staff he was able to successfully transmit the results for the Senatorial and House of representatives elections but he could not transmit that of the presidential elections even after repeated attempts.

The PDP called its second subpoenaed witness for the day, Grace Timothy, but counsels to Bola Tinubu, APC and INEC, all objected to her submission.

However, Justice Haruna allowed her to give her submission before the court.

Again under cross examination, Grace Timothy who was a presiding officer in Plateau state said she also faced the same challenge of uploading the results of the presidential elections to the Irev portal as well.

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