Tribunal: Atiku’s witness alleges APC, Tinubu agents truncated upload of election results to INEC server

Abiye Sekibo, a witness of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has alleged that agents” of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and President Bola Tinubu truncated the uploading of election results to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) server in Rivers State.

As reported by Premium Times, Seriko told the Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, June 5, that Tinubu and APC “agents” prevented INEC officials from using the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) machines to upload collated results from polling units during the 25 February presidential election across the state.

Sekibo, who was PDP’s coordinator in Rivers state said: “The agents of the 2nd respondent (Mr Tinubu) and 3rd respondent (APC) ensured that INEC presiding officers did not upload results of the presidential election in Rivers.”

The witness, who was also a former Transportation Minister also alleged that the APC agents unleashed violence on voters and residents around polling units in the state.

Sekibo said: “INEC couldn’t upload results across the entire Rivers state.”

Atiku’s witness, however, admitted that he does not know the names of the agents who allegedly perpetrated the violence at the polls.

He stated this while being cross-examined by President Tinubu’s lawyer, Akin Olujinmi.

Defending his claim that the agents were from APC and Tinubu, Sekibo explained that he voted at his polling unit at Okrika LGA, witnessed several results collation in 20 polling units, and deduced the agents’ identities from their violent actions.