Thread by @TheSerahIbrahim

Learned Silks of the inner and outer bar
We are at the PEPT today and we hope there would be no witness glitch today from INEC

The judges are about to seat
The lawyers are all seated
Labour Party is heavily present in the courtroom.

So many baby lawyers in court today 😅

Here we go, the judges are seated already

Justice Bello: Good Morning learned senior counsel, members of the bar, the press and everyone here today
Welcome to today proceedings, as usual we want your cooperation today for a successful proceeding.
You are all welcome.

The clerk is now up and he has announced the case

Datti is up with the microphone looking smart and fine

Datti with a smile: Respectfully, I am Datti Baba-Ahmed representing Labour Party

APC - Odunsoya Damilola George Legal Officer APC

INEC is absent today 🌚😅🌚

Lead Counsel:

Labour Party - SAN Livy Uzoukwu

INEC - SAN AB Mahmoud

Tinubu and Shettima - SAN Wole Olanipekun

APC - SAN LO Fagbemi

INEC’s lawyer SAN AB Mahmoud is now up with the microphone

Hmmm.. He is about to call INEC’s witness😅

INEC: Before witness comes out, my lord I have a couple of documents that I want to tender

SAN Livy is now up with a very angry face: My lord, I believe this is the stage that we, in fact I would hand over to Ikwueto

SAN Ikwueto is now up

This tag team is giving me ginger 😅

SAN Ikwueto: My lord we have subpoenas on this that we want to tender for a seemless case today with this witness

Justice Tsammani:What is seemless, you have closed your case,you want to reopen your case again

Ikwueto: No my lord, we have subpoena and documents for this witness

Justice Tsammani and the other judges are looking like 😟

Justice Tsammani: You have closed your case and you want to tender

Ikwueto: It’s for this person and we want to have a seemless case with these witnesses. They are subpoenas
If my lords would allow

Justice Tsammani: 😲

Justice Tsammani: You cannot, you have closed your case please, what seemless case.

Ikwueto: No problem my lord. I just wanted us to have documents that shows that we requested for what they are bringing out now.

Justice Tsammani: No please, your case is closed.

Ikwueto sits

Ikwueto is now up again: My lord, we do not object to their documents apart from 3

Justice Tsammani: Ikwueto they have not even rendered

The whole court is laughing 😅

Tsammani: Are you sure this rain allowed you sleep well

Ikwueto: I thought they rendered

😅🤣😅

INEC has now tendered the document

All the respondents did not object

Ikwueto: We do not object to all apart from 3 of the documents my lord. The ones listed as 3,4 & 7

Justice Tsammani has now admitted the documents as evidence before the court

INEC has now called d witness

INEC: We want to call the witness Dr. Lawrence Bayode

Secretary: Dr Lawrence Kayode

INEC: No, B as a boy, Bayode

Secretary: Okay, Bayode, please step out to the box

The witness is now out, walking to the box

This one witness is cleaning glasses, I hope he can see road oh😅

The Secretary has now sworn in the witness

INEC: You are Dr. Lawrence Bayode

W: Yes

INEC: Where do you live

W: Abuja

INEC: You are a staff of INEC

W: Yes

INEC: What is your position and how long have you been working

W: I’m a Deputy Director of the ICT in INEC

Hmmm

W: I’ve been working for 24 years with INEC

‘Now I know why Ikwueto wanted to tender documents, LP sent subpoenas to this same department in INEC and they didn’t show up but here they are today standing as witness for INEC’

INEC: You made your statement on 10th April

W: Yes

INEC: Hiw do you recognize it

W: With my signature

INEC: Do you wish to adopt

W: Yes but there are some errors on page 69 and 70 that I want to correct
On the paragraph, it move from 40 to 104, 105, 106, 107, 108 instead of 41, 42, 43, 44 and 45

INEC: Okay, let’s correct it

INEC: My lord please help with the correction. Witness any other correction

W: No

INEC: In paragraph 8 (29viii) and 107(i) that’s 44(i) you referenced the cloud train log

W: Yes

INEC: If you see that cloud trail log can you identify it

W: Yes, my name and signature is there

INEC: I seek to tender the cloud trail and the certification my lord.
It’s listed in item 6 on our schedule of documents

Tinubu’s lawyer Olanipekun is now up on his feet

O: My lord it is too early in the morning to be objecting to documents, there is no objection

Hmm😒

The whole courtroom is laughing.

APC: No objection to the documents presented by INEC my lord

Ikwueto: My lord, we object and would state our reasons in full when the need arises

🤣🤣🤣
Wahala ohhh, it’s now Labour Party’s turn to be objecting

Ikwueto sits with a huge smile🤣

Justice Tsammani has now admitted the documents as evidence before the court

INEC: My lord, I want the documents to be taken as read if I have your kind permission

Justice Ugo: Hiw do you want to demonstrate this document, you want to enter cloud 😅

The whole courtroom 😅🤣😅

Justice Tsammani: Since it’s cloudy, they will enter the cloud to demonstrate the cloud

Olanipekun: No objections my lord
😅

APC: We consent to the document to be marked as read

Ikwueto: No objections my lord

‘Everyone is shocked but Ikwueto has a huge smile on his face’
Hmm

INEC: This smile from Ikwueto well I’m
Just happy he’s not objecting and he’s in a good spirit today, I hope this spirit of cooperation continues

‘This smile on Ikwueto to me is a deadly smile oh😅🤣😅, this Labour Party lawyers are up to something 😅’

Olanipekun is now up

O: The foundation and the authencity of INEC elections are written in the forms EC8A and EC8B

W: Yes

O: Assuming IREV have blurred documents they won’t affect the physical results of form EC8A which are not blurred, am I right

W: Yes

O: The images of form EC8A uploaded to IREV are not relevant for results collation, am I right

W: Yes you’re right

O: Are you aware of the celebrated E-Naira of president Buhari

W: Yes I’m aware

O: The E-Naira could not function work due to technological issues am I right

W: You are right

‘Lol, are you working in CBN are you aware 🤣🤣🤣, witness’

O: Are you aware that e-naira app was removed from google play store to fix the technological issues, are you aware

Yes I’m aware

‘Why is Olanipekun using style to give him answers 😅’

Olanipekun:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

LP: Your app on e-transmission was tested before it was used

W: Yes

LP: The testing was done between 3rd and 6th Feb 2023

W: No

Ikwueto laughing: So when was it

W: It was 4th Feb

‘The whole courtroom laughing, me in my mind: On colos, On colos 🤣🤣🤣’

Ikwueto: The report… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Ikwueto: You are a senior pastor
In your church

W: Yes

Ikwueto: It shows the risk level

W: It is resolved

Ikwueto: But it shows it was high risk

W: It was resolved

Ikwueto: So the e-transmission was not vulnerable

W: Yes, it was resolved 🤣😅🤣

This witness has just… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Ikwueto: I put it to you Dr that an AWS cloud trail law would have these features: event time, event source, event name, AWS Region, source IP address do you agree

W: It is listed

Ikwueto: Do you agree

W: It is listed

🤣🤣🤣
Oboy you agree abi you no agree

Justice Tsammani:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

INEC: My lord that would be all for us, we are closing ours today.

‘The whole courtroom is shocked😳’

INEC has closed their case with only 1 witness 🤣😭🤣

INEC what you people are doing 🤣🤣🤣

Only 1 witness to defend the whole glitch and election 🤣🤣🤣

Justice Tsammani:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…