Atiku thanked INEC for not calling witnesses to defend Buhari’s victory

President Muhammadu Buhari, and Atiku Abubakar 

The counsel of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in the 2019 general elections, Dr. Livy Uzoukwu (SAN), has thanked the Independent National Electoral Commission's legal team for not calling witnesses to defend President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory at the election tribunal.

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, had on Monday said that it would not call any witness to defend its case in respect of the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate , Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.



The commission’s lawyer, Yunus Usman (SAN), said it would not be necessary on the grounds that the evidence extracted from the petitioners’ witnesses during cross -examination was in support of the commission’s case.

He said, “We have painstakingly reviewed the evidence of petitioners’ witnesses.

“We have also painstakingly studied the petitioners’ evidence under cross -examination, which supports our defence and our denial in consonance with our pleadings.

“My lords, we do not see the need to waste your lordship’s precious time by repeating what their witnesses have repeated under cross - examination.

“In that circumstance, we will not call any witness to help them prove their case.

“We, therefore, rely on the evidence of their witness under cross -examination.”



But reacting Uzoukwu said, “I profusely thank my brother and friend for deciding not to call any witness,”