Alright, the judges are seated.
Justice Bello: Good morning, learned senior counsel, members of the bar, the press, and everyone here today.
Welcome to today proceedings, as usual, we want your cooperation today for a successful proceeding.
You are all welcome.
The clerk is now up, and he has announced the case
Datti with a smile: Respectfully, I am Datti Baba-Ahmed, representing Labour Party
APC – Odunsoya Damilola George Legal Officer APC
INEC is absent today
Lead Counsel:
Labour Party – SAN Livy Uzoukwu
INEC – SAN AB Mahmoud
Tinubu and Shettima – SAN Wole Olanipekun
APC – SAN LO Fagbemi
INEC’s lawyer SAN AB Mahmoud is now up with the microphone
He is about to call INEC’s witness
INEC: Before witness comes out, my lord, I have a couple of documents that I want to tender
SAN Livy is now up with a very angry face: My lord, I believe this is the stage that we, in fact, I would hand over to Ikwueto
SAN Ikwueto is now up
SAN Ikwueto: My lord, we have subpoenas on this that we want to tender for a seemless case today with this witness
Justice Tsammani:What is seemless? You have closed your case. Do you want to reopen your case again
Ikwueto: No, my lord, we have subpoena and documents for this witness
Justice Tsammani and the other judges are looking feeble
Justice Tsammani: You have closed your case, and you want to tender
Ikwueto: It’s for this person, and we want to have a seemless case with these witnesses. They are subpoenas
If my lords would allow
Justice Tsammani: Wow
Justice Tsammani: You can not. You have closed your case, please, what seemless case.
Ikwueto: No problem, my lord. I just wanted us to have documents that show that we requested what they are bringing out now.
Justice Tsammani: No, please, your case is closed.
SAN Ikwueto sits
Ikwueto is now up again: My lord, we do not object to their documents apart from 3
Justice Tsammani: Ikwueto they have not even rendered
The whole court is laughing
Tsammani: Are you sure this rain allowed you to sleep well
Ikwueto: I thought they rendered
INEC has now tendered the document
All the respondents did not object
Ikwueto: We do not object to all apart from 3 of the documents, my lord. The ones listed as 3,4 & 7
Justice Tsammani has now admitted the documents as evidence before the court
INEC has now called the Witness
INEC: We want to call the witness Dr. Lawrence Bayode
Secretary: Dr Lawrence Kayode
INEC: No, B as a boy, Bayode
Secretary: Okay, Bayode, please step out to the box
The witness is now out, walking to the box
This one witness is cleaning glasses, I hope he can see the road, oh
The secretary has now sworn in the witness
INEC: You are Dr. Lawrence Bayode
W: Yes
INEC: Where do you live
W: Abuja
INEC: You are a staff of INEC
W: Yes
INEC: What is your position, and how long have you been working
W: I’m a deputy director of the ICT in INEC
W: I’ve been working for 24 years with INEC
‘Now I know why Ikwueto wanted to tender documents, LP sent subpoenas to this same department in INEC, and they didn’t show up, but here they are today standing as witness for INEC’
INEC: You made your statement on 10th April
W: Yes
INEC: How do you recognize it
W: With my signature
INEC: Do you wish to adopt
W: Yes, but there are some errors on pages 69 and 70 that I want to correct
On the paragraph, it moves from 40 to 104, 105, 106, 107, 108 instead of 41, 42, 43, 44, and 45
INEC: Okay, let’s correct it
INEC: My lord, please help with the correction. Witness any other correction
W: No
INEC: In paragraph 8 (29viii) and 107(i) that’s 44(i) you referenced the cloud train log
W: Yes
INEC: If you see that cloud trail log, can you identify it
W: Yes, my name and signature are there
INEC: I seek to tender the cloud trail and the certification my lord.
It’s listed in item 6 on our schedule of documents
Tinubu’s lawyer, Olanipekun, is now up on his feet
O: My lord, it is too early in the morning to be objecting to documents. There is no objection
The whole courtroom is laughing.
APC: No objection to the documents presented by INEC, my lord
Ikwueto: My lord, we object and would state our reasons in full when the need arises
Wahala ohhh, it’s now Labour Party’s turn to be objecting
Ikwueto sits with a huge smile
Justice Tsammani has now admitted the documents as evidence before the court
INEC: My lord, I want the documents to be taken as read if I have your kind permission
Justice Ugo: How do you want to demonstrate this document? Do you want to enter cloud
The whole courtroom
Justice Tsammani: Since it’s cloudy, they will enter the cloud to demonstrate the cloud
Olanipekun: No objections, my lord
APC: We consent to the document to be marked as read
Ikwueto: No objections, my lord
‘Everyone is shocked, but Ikwueto has a huge smile on his face’
INEC: This smile from Ikwueto well I’m
I’m just happy he’s not objecting and he’s in a good spirit today, I hope this spirit of cooperation continues
‘This smile on Ikwueto to me is a deadly smile oh, this Labour Party lawyers are up to something’
Olanipekun is now up
O: The foundation and the authencity of INEC elections are written in the forms EC8A and EC8B
W: Yes
O: Assuming IREV have blurred documents, they won’t affect the physical results of form EC8A, which are not blurred. Am I right
W: Yes
O: The images of form EC8A uploaded to IREV are not relevant for results collation, am I right
W: Yes you’re right
O: Are you aware of the celebrated E-Naira of President Buhari
W: Yes I’m aware
O: The E-Naira could not function work due to technological issues, am I right
W: You are right
‘Lol, are you working in CBN? Are you aware, witness’
O: Are you aware that the e-naira app was removed from the google Play Store to fix the technological issues? Are you aware
Yes I’m aware
‘Why is Olanipekun using style to give him answers’
Olanipekun: That would be all
APC is now up
APC: It was the physical form EC8A that your commission uses to collate elections, right
Correct
APC: The glitches that occurred on the presidential election did not affect the collation, right
Yes
APC: Are you aware that ECOWAS was one of the recognised observers for the election, right
Yes
APC: They issued a report
W: Yes, but I’ve not seen it, but I know
APC: Look at your exhibit on the cloud log and explain to my lords how you obtain it and it’s essence
W: Thank you, my lord. It is obtained on the AWS and shows the activity that was deployed on the e-transmission application on AWS to fix the glitches that were encountered on that day
APC sits down
Ikwueto is now up with his huge smile
LP: Your app on e-transmission was tested before it was used
W: Yes
LP: The testing was done between 3rd and 6th Feb 2023
W: No
Ikwueto laughing: So when was it
W: It was 4th Feb
‘The whole courtroom laughing’
Ikwueto: The report was received on 22nd Feb 2023 by INEC
W: Yes
Ikwueto: This is the report, and you produced it on subpoena
W: Murmurs a bit, yes
INEC is up. This document is not before the court yet
Ikwueto: Okay, no problem, my lord, I want to tender the document in evidence
Justice Tsammani: Okay
Ikwueto: Thank you, Sir
INEC is now up: No objection
APC lawyers are murmuring heavily and very loudly
They are not happy
Olanipekun: We object, my lord
APC: My lord, we don’t know what this document is. We object
Wahaluuurr ohhh
Justice Tsammani has now admitted the document as exhibit XY
Ikwueto: Does this document show the findings
W: It says findings
INEC is up
Ikwueto: Pleaae sit down
Ikwueto: So it shows findings resolved
W: Yes
Ikwueto: You are a senior pastor
In your church
W: Yes
Ikwueto: It shows the risk level
W: It is resolved
Ikwueto: But it shows it was high risk
W: It was resolved
Ikwueto: So the e-transmission was not vulnerable
W: Yes, it was resolved
This witness has just contradicted himself
Remember what he said to APC earlier on e-transmission
Ikwueto: Your test was done on the pre-production server
W: No, it was on the UAT server
Ikwueto: Open page 23 of the report
W: Which report
Ikwueto: The report you can see
W: Hold on
Ikwueto: Pastor, you are taking all the time in World
W: I’m referred to as Doctor
Ikwueto: I’m also a man of God
W: I can’t find it
Ikwueto: So you can not see the page
W: No, I can’t
Ikwueto: You still can not see it
W: Oh, I can see it now
Ikwueto: On this paragraph 7.3.3 on pre-prod
W: It was not this one
Ikwueto: This is a server testing
W: It was not this one
Ikwueto: You tested the server right
W: Yes, but
APC is now up: My lord it’s already 24 minutes
Why are they afraid, na
Ikwueto: I put it to you Dr that an AWS cloud trail law would have these features: event time, event source, event name, AWS Region, source IP address. Do you agree
W: It is listed
Ikwueto: Do you agree
W: It is listed
Oboy you agree abi you no agree
Justice Tsammani: Is that a yes
W: Yes
Ikwueto: The snapped copy of EC8A on IREV and the hard copy EC8A can never be different
W: Anything can happen when you’re uploading
‘The whole court shouts ahhhh’
INEC fear God, ohhhhh
Pastor Lawrence, Pastor Lawrence
No wonder he did not swear with the Bible when he was sworn in. He used affirmation and not Bible’
Ikwueto: So it would change
W: It won’t change
Ikwueto: Show him this PCA23 exhibit.
Pastor next week, I will be in your church on Sunday
INEC is up: That is unfair. You’re intimidating him
Wahalurrr oh, me too I want to go to his Church
Ikwueto: Is it bad that I want to come to church
Ikwuetoooo won’t kill us.
Ikwueto: Look at the document, please.
What are the scores
W: I can’t see it. It’s blurred
INEC that’s how they brought Deeper Live sister that day to lie, now pastor Lawrence
Who is in Pastor Lawrence church
Ikwueto: So what are the scores
W: I can’t see it, but it looks different
Pastor Lawrence
Ikwueto: Thank you. My lord, please answer one more question.
Justice Tsammani: Okay
Ikwueto: You are aware that INEC materials are archived
W: Which one
Ikwueto: Your materials, press statement, and all
W: Not all
Ikwueto: Oh, not all
Okay
So did you…
APC cuts in
APC: Please, his time is up
Justice Tsammani: Re-examination
Ikwueto smiling: Okay, no problem.
INEC is up now
Re-examination
INEC: You were asked on exhibit x1 about the performance, and I want you to explain performance and functionality to the court
Justice Tsammani: It’s not necessary
Ikwueto: Thank you, my lord
INEC: My lord, he needs to explain it so we can understand
Justice Tsammani: Okay, explain
W: Thank you my lord, the functionality is that it’s doing what it was meant to do while the performance is test on how the system will behave under heavy load and heavy users and the vulnerability test is the one on the backend to ensure the system is secured
INEC: Thank you. Can we discharge the witness
Justice Tsammani: Okay
Ikwueto: Now that he’s discharged, can we come to your church on Sunday
Ikwueto
Justice Ugo: Go with your 10% and give him beforehand if you want to go to his church
Ikwueto: I will invite him for confession
Ikwuetoooo, Ikwueto does not have Guardian Angel. This is his vawulence
INEC: My lord that would be all for us, we are closing ours today.
‘The whole courtroom is shocked’
INEC has closed their case with only 1 witness
INEC what you people are doing
Only 1 witness to defend the whole glitch and election
Justice Tsammani: Okay, any objection to them closing their case
There was no objection
Olanipekun: My lord, we would them open ours tomorrow.
Justice Tsammani: Okay
So we adjourn today
The case has now been adjourned to tomorrow, Wednesday, 5th July 2023, for Tinubu and Shettima’s lawyers to open their case.