The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday requested the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) to dismiss the joint petition by Atiku Abubakar and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against the electoral victory of President Muhammadu Buhari.
INEC is anchoring its request on the claim that the petition was not only useless, the petitioners having presented allegations they could not prove but that it also amounted to a waste of the precious time of the court.
Respected member of the inner bar and lead counsel to INEC, Yunus Ustaz (SAN) presented the commission’s position while making INEC’s final submissions in the petition before the court.
Yunus Usman (SAN) denied claim that INEC has a server, that it transmitted results electronically and that it abandoned its pleadings by not calling any witnesses.
Usman argued that the petition was a mere waste of the court’s time because they made allegations they could not substantiate.
Usman said: “This is a worthless petition. INEC did not abandon its pleadings. It only extracted salient evidence from their (petitioners) witnesses.
“It would have been a waste of the court’s time to call witnesses when the petitioners failed to prove anything and admitted the issues we advanced in our pleadings
“We urge the court to dismiss this petition, which was meant to test the water with two legs, and they are now falling.”
