Good afternoon ladies and Gentlemen…. Welcome to today’s presidential election petition tribunal as millions of Nigerians whose mandate Mahmood Yakubu and his group handed to another person are keenly watching hopefully to reclaim their mandate.
Grab your Popcorn 🍿…
It’s 2:43pm and the court now sits at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal for the afternoon session.
Justice Adah welcomes everyone.
REPRESENTATIONS
– Peter Obi represents himself and Labour Party
– Chris Maigida represents the 4th Respondent
1ST RESPONDENT LEGAL TEAM
LEAD: DR LIVY UZOUKWU SAN
– Onyechi Ikpeazu SAN
– PIN Ikwueto SAN
– Ben Anechebe SAN
– Ikechukwu Ezechukwu SAN
– Valeria Azinge SAN
– Alex Ejesieme SAN
– Peter Afuba SAN
– Audu Anuga SAN
– Rita Chris-Garba Esq
– Chief Olusola Esq
– Mathias Esq
SAN Livy is up on his feet
Ikwueto: My lord with due respect, the cross examination of witness pw7 was stood down to continue today, so we want to quickly start with that today My learned colleague Ikwueto would take charge of it.
SAN Ikwueto is now up on his feet and invites the witness to the stand The witness is now on the stand INEC lawyers are up on their feet to start cross examination.
AB Mahmood SAN for 1st Respondent Begins The Cross Examination of the Witness (W)
PIN Ikwueto SAN is Handling the Proceedings For Today
Cross examination for Yesterday’s Witness (PW7), the AWS Cloud Engineer, Has Just Commenced!
AB: Glitches could appear after deployment at post maintenance state
W: that is incorrect
AB: the exhibit you tendered PCJ A-F speaks to the AWS’ health in all regions. Are you aware of personal health dashboard?
W: yes I am
AB Mahmood( 1st Res): In the personal health dashboard, customers or clients will have access to the performance of the AWS services that they are using?
W: yes
AB: The personal health dashboard is not before the court
W: the information tendered to the court contains same.
AB: AWS adopts a shared responsibility model for the security of its services. By shared we are referring to the AWS part and the customers part.
W: yes that is correct
AB: That part of AWS you tendered deals with the responsibility of AWS in terms of its infrastructure
W. I tendered reports to show infrastructure in all Regions.
AB Mahmood: You know specifically that to understand what transpired on the applications deployed on AWS’ infrastructure by the customer you must have access to a different report
W: not necessarily.
AB: I suggest it’s necessary W: that is incorrect The applications are hosted on AWS services. If there is a glitch it will impact the application
AB: Are you familiar with AWS cloud trail? W: yes, very familiar. There is a cloud trail for every AWS account
AB: The cloud trail in respect of this case is not before the court
W: No
AB Mahmood: The AWS infrastructure used by INEC is the best report of what happened
W: that’s incorrect
AB: it is not unusual for glitches to occur on applications?
W: It is highly unusual for glitches relating to primary functions of applications in production
AB: You are familiar with the e-Naira project of the CBN?
W: No I am not
AB: Heard about the glitch on that?
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W: No
AB: Heard of the MTN momo psv glitch W: No
AB Mahmood: You were a candidate of the LP?
W: that’s correct
AB: The subpoena you talked about ….. W: it was delivered to me
AB You didn’t come on the authority of Amazon ?
W: I am here as an expert not on the mandate of Amazon
AB: You are here as a LP activist
W: incorrect
1st respondent then rested from the cross examination 2nd and 3rd Respondents’ cross examination to be done by Wole Olanipekun.
Olanipekun Wole SAN begins Cross Examination for 2nd and 3rd Respondents ( BAT/SHETT) O for Olanipekun W for Witness
O: Can you look at your appointment which you tendered. PcJ2
W: I didn’t tender a letter of appointment.
O: That exhibit has no author. No name W: there is. Employee resource center
O:That is the name?
W: yes O: May I suggest to you that that’s an employee resource person?
W: it is a department
Olanipekun Wole: This letter is also not signed
W: it is signed by the employee resource center
O: There is a signature there?
W: it depends on what you mean?
O: No ID Card to show you are a staff
W: AWS doesn’t issue ID cards
O: Your original letter of appointment, if any is not attached
W: the verification letter states my employment date
O: This is not your first time of coming to this court
W: I have been here a few times.
Olanipekun Wole: You have a Twitter handle. If I may remind you, it is (I redacted this)
W: That is correct. I am here as an expert witness
O: You have been here in this proceedings watching a few times?
W: yes
O: You have put what you have covered in your Twitter handle
W: that is incorrect
O: You have submitted a lot of reports to this court. You downloaded the report from AWS
W: they are public information posted by Amazon.
O: So the reports aren’t your products
W: they are my products because I brought them to court.
Olanipekun Wole SAN: You put it there that you contested for the house of reps as a Lp candidate . Are you happy you lost?
W: I am indifferent
O: Madam, you agree that the authorship isn’t yours
W: I brought them to court so they are mine
O: Let me remind you that you contested primary election in your constituency. Did you win?
W: I won the primary
O: Did you go to court to File an action
W: yes I did
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