The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will, on Monday (today), open its defence against the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
INEC’s defence will commence following the conclusion of submissions by PDP and Atiku on July 19.
The PDP had, during its session, presented 62 witnesses of the 400 earlier billed to testify at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.
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The opposition party claimed that results from various polling units collated during the February 23 presidential election were transmitted through a server, a claim INEC has denied.
Also, the counsel to the electoral body, Yunus Ustaz Usman, had proposed to call 84 witnesses in six days as agreed with lawyers to Atiku and PDP and other parties involved in the hearing.
It was also agreed that while the petitioners will take 10 days to conclude their case, the defence will take six days each with five minuted allotted to take evidence in chief from ordinary witnesses.
During the hearing, examination of expert and subpoenaed witnesses will take 20 minutes and any re-examination will take three minutes.