The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has submitted the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, machines used in the conduct of the September 21st 2024 Edo State governorship election to the Governorship Election Tribunal.
INEC submitted the BVAS machines following a subpoena obtained by the PDP after it initially declined to release the machines voluntarily.
At Thursday’s proceedings, a PDP witness from Akoko Edo, who served as the Ward 9 collation agent, testified that while elections were conducted properly in the 13 polling units within the ward, the results collated at the ward level differed from those uploaded on INEC’s Result Viewing Portal, IREV.
The witness said a duplicate set of results was presented at the ward collation centre, which did not tally with polling unit records, prompting his refusal to sign the ward collation result sheet.
In another testimony, a collation agent from Oredo Local Government presented evidence that the final results declared by INEC in Ward 1 did not correspond with any polling unit results or with the data uploaded on IREV.
Governor Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was declared winner of the Edo Governorship Election after polling the highest number of votes.
Not satisfied with the result, the Peoples Democratic Party had gone to court to challenge the outcome of the election.
