Once the election was over on July 16, INEC announced the results on July 17. Before the trial, some PDP lawyers told us that there were polling units where more than one BVAS machine was used in the July 16 election, and therefore there were merging of results.
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But throughout the trial, INEC never stated where and when two BVAS machines were used. Again, assuming they were used and it forgot to lead the evidence in that regard, the merging of results would still have to take place before announcing the final results. However, at the trial INEC said synchronisation occurred after July 17.
This was why the Petitioners, through their lead Counsel, Prince Lateef Fagbemi SAN submitted that synchronisation was “a strange coinage surreptitiously designed to cure the over voting presented to the Tribunal.”
