Tribunal: Math Professor Presented By Labour Party To Claims To Have Analyzed Only Results Of Two State

According to Eric Ofuegbu, a mathematics professor who represented the Labour Party before the Presidential Election Petitions Court, he only examined reports from two states.

The Labour Party and Peter Obi claim that huge overvoting was recorded in two states—Benue and Rivers—and that this overvoting altered the outcome of the presidential election on February 25, 2023.

Ofuegbu, who insisted he wasn’t paid for his analysis of the results from the two states, acknowledged relying on information from the INEC result viewing page.

In his witness statement, he asserted that he had compiled and mathematically calculated evidence of widespread overvoting in the two states.

Under cross examination by INEC’s lead counsel Abubakar Mahmoud, the witness was presented with a copy of the presidential election result sheet from polling unit 002, in Degema, Rivers state showing that 40 persons were accredited and 40 persons voted in the polling unit, with the INEC lawyer suggesting that the equal number of accredited voters and those who voted contradicts the claim of over voting.

Under further questioning on why he chose Rivers and Benue states as his main areas of interest, the witness said it was just random. The Professor was then asked whether an analysis of election results from just two states is enough to make conclusions on a presidential election, and he said he was limited by time.