On Monday, Mr. Ibrahim Hamza, a witness, said before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, that he had been forced into signing the Nasarawa state presidential election results.
As the 10th petitioners’ witness, Hamza testified before the five-member panel chaired by Justice Haruna Tsammani. He claimed to have worked as a state collation agent for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) during the presidential election that took place on February 25.
He said in court that INEC representatives had informed him they wouldn’t provide him with a copy of the election results unless he signed them.
The witness informed the court that there were 3,256 polling places in the state overall and that his party, the PDP, had representatives in each of the units and wards.
The witness said that a copy of the presidential election results from Nasarawa State that was already on display in court had been tampered with and insisted that the copy he had signed was a clean copy.
According to the results presented to the court, the Labour Party won the presidential election with 191,361 total votes or 35.40% of the votes cast in Nasarawa State.
Hamza testified before the court that INEC’s technology malfunctioned when the results were supposed to be uploaded following the election.
Mr. Abraham David, the ninth witness who also testified in court, said Atiku received barely 15% of the vote in the FCT.
When asked during cross-examination if he was aware that Atiku had not received up to 25% of the vote in the FCT and was thus, according to the argument of his party, ineligible to be returned as the election’s victor, Mr. David responded, “I agree that having not received 25%, he is not entitled to be returned as President. Even Tinubu did not achieve a score of 25%.
