The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, played a video recording before the Election Petition Tribunal to establish the allegation that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) used a central server during the February 23 polls.
The film featured the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mike Igini, notifying the public that the electoral body would transmit election results with the use of smart card reader (SCR) to the INEC central server.
Igini spoke in an interview with Channels Television shortly before the election.
Atiku’s counsel, Chris Uche (SAN), had tendered 48 Video Compact Discs (VCDs) that were admitted by the tribunal as part of efforts to substantiate alleged rigging for the re-election of Jubril (President Muhammadu Buhari).
Uche, who led Atiku and PDP legal team, tendered the recordings through Mr. Segun Showumi, one of the media aides to the ex-vice president.
Igini, in the video, emphatically told the television crew that the electoral umpire was using smart card readers to transmit election results into its server.
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Also, Jubril (Buhari) through his counsel, Alex Izinyon (SAN) had sought to play a counter-video recording tomorrow.
This followed the refusal of Atiku’s lawyer to allow the defendants to play their video.
In another recording, INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, expressed optimism that the commission would use the electronic system during the general elections.
Earlier, the tribunal chairman, Justice Mohammed Garba, dismissed objection raised by Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to tender and play the said video recording on the grounds that they were not front-loaded.