The Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, said on Tuesday that there are no such records as those sought by Peter Gregory Obi, the presidential candidate for the Labour Party.
In a lawsuit with the case number CA/PEPC/03/2023, Obi and the Labour Party (LP) contest President Bola Tinubu’s election on February 25.
INEC, President Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima, and their All Progressives Congress are listed as respondents in the petition (APC).
Two of the five papers Obi requested did not exist, while one was a work-in-progress, according to Mr Lawrence Bayode, Deputy Director, ICT at INEC, who testified in court.
One of Obi’s witnesses, Ms. Loretta Ogah, an ICT cloud engineer, said she ran for office in Cross River as a candidate for the Labour Party but was unsuccessful.
Mr. Wole Olanipakun (SAN), the attorney for Tinubu and Shettima, cross-examined Ogah.
The electoral umpire failed to put her name on its webpage due to a network outage, she said in court, so she sued INEC after losing.
Ogah said during cross-examination by Mr. Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), counsel for the APC, that bugs on the INEC website did not exist on February 25.
She said that since she was not an INEC employee, she needed to be made aware of the password policy.
According to NAN, the court, ruled over by Justice Haruna Tsammani, postponed further proceedings till Wednesday.
