The Independent National Electoral Commission has told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to dismiss the petition filed by the People’s Democratic Party Presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar.
INEC’s lawyer, Yunus Usman (SAN) insisted that Atiku’s petition was a mere waste of time as he and his party could not substantiate claims of the electoral commission having a server and transmitting results electronically.
Usman said: “This is a worthless petition. INEC did not abandon its pleadings. It only extracted salient evidence from their (petitioners) witnesses. It would have been a waste of the court’s time to call witnesses when the petitioners failed to prove anything and admitted the issues we advanced in our pleadings. We urge the court to dismiss this petition, which was meant to test the water with two legs, and they are now falling.”