The presidential election petition tribunal, sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday in a unanimous decision dismissed the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, challenging the election of President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 23 presidential election.
The tribunal said the petitioners were unable to prove their allegations against Buhari’s election.
The judgement read by head of the five-man panel, Justice Mohammed Garba, held that there was no enough evidence adduced by the PDP and Atiku to warrant the tribunal upturning the election of Buhari.
Earlier, the tribunal struck out the evidence given by the Kenyan Information and Communication Technology (ICT) expert, David Njorga invited as the 59th petitioners witnesses to establish their claim that INEC transmitted results to a server during the last presidential election.
The court classified the evidence by Njorga as hearsay evidence because he claimed to have sourced the information about s supposed INEC server from a third party website: www.factsdontlieng.com.
Justice Garba said the court cannot rely on such unbelievable evidence as presented by Njorga to hold that there actually exists a server.
The judge also dismissed the evidence by the petitioners’ witness number 6, who claimed to be a statistician.
He noted that Joseph admitted during cross-examination that he has no professional certification.
Justice Garba said the evidence by both witnesses, who the petitioners described as their expert witnesses, did not qualify as such.
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