Presidential Poll: BVAS machines failed us, INEC officials tell court

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Three Presiding Officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Monday, testified as witnesses in the case a former Vice President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, filed to nullify President Bola Tinubu’s election.

The trio, who took turns to mount the box owing to witness summons that was served on them by the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, narrated how the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, machines, failed them on February 25, which was the day the presidential election was held.

According to the witnesses, whereas they were able to transmit the results of the National Assembly election that was held on the same day, using the BVAS machines, however, their repeated efforts to electronically transmit results of the presidential Poll to INEC’s IReV portal, failed…