A digital forensic expert whose name was given as Hitler Nwuala, yesterday told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deliberately deleted all the results of presidential elections from the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) under the guise of preparing for the governorship election which was eventually held on the 18th of March.
The forensic expert who was the 26th witness called by Atiku Abubakar, who was the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 poll, claimed to have inspected 110 BVAS devices used during the presidential polls in the FCT and insisted that all the machines he inspected had their data deliberately deleted.
During cross-examination by INEC’s lawyer, Abubakar Mahmoud, Nwuala maintained that it was unnecessary for the electoral body to have deleted the presidential election result data from BVAS machines used in the FCT because the FCT did not hold governorship elections.
The witness, who was led in his evidence by Chris Uche, the lead counsel to the petitioners (Atiku and PDP), informed the court he examined 110 BVAS machines as sample material from the FCT and submitted a report of his investigation carried out on the BVAS.
The report was subsequently admitted as evidence and marked as exhibits, despite objections by the respondents in the matter.
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