Labour Party (LP) presented two witnesses at the Presidential Election Tribunal who contradicted themselves on the requirements for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deploy technological applications.
Gatekeepers News reports that Chibuike Ugwuoke, a cyber security expert, on Wednesday, presented metadata which he claimed to have extracted from the INEC result viewing portal (IReV).
Under cross-examination on Thursday by Abubakar Mahmoud, INEC’s lawyer, Ugwuoke said the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) Act stipulates that all technologies used by INEC must adhere to the ISO 27001 2013 standard.
However, Emmanuel Edet, another LP witness who is the head of legal services at NITDA, said such requirements do not exist under the NITDA Act.
“The NITDA Act does not contain any cyber security standard code – ISO 27001 2013,” Edet said.
The witness also said no provision in the act makes reference to INEC.
Also, about 47 transparent plastic boxes labelled with the names of states, filled with documents were brought before the presidential election petition court by the LP.
Due to time constraints, the petitioners could not tender the content of the boxes in evidence.
