By
Managing Editor
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The Maradun local government returning officer Dr. Ahmad Kainuwa has confirmed to the Governorship election petition tribunal that the duplicate of the result tendered by the petitioner in respect of the Maradun is the correct result he has collated from various ward collation officers in the local government.
He stated that, the duplicate is the original and authentic one but that he was asked to present another alternative result downloaded on the IREV portal.
He stated that, to the best of his knowledge and based on the result he officially collated APC scored (98, 546) and it was .
“This is the result I collated from the various collation officers of Maradun local government area, which is one of my primary assignments as an INEC ad-hoc staff and submitted the same to INEC and when it comes to presentation of result INEC invited me to the presentation room. INEC later on discovered that there are differences between my result and the one uploaded”.
“INEC instructed me to present the one that they downloaded from the INEC server, which they said is the authentic result”.
“I presented the one downloaded from the INEC server because since the time they collected the exhibit I have never sighted the document until now”.
When asked to read from the figures of scores by parties in the INEC alternative result sheet, he insisted that, he couldn’t read from the document he knew nothing about.
