AMAZON STAFF TESTIFIES, NO TECHNICAL GLITCH DURING PRESIDENTIAL POLLS

Amazon Web Services Incorporated, which was engaged to provide technical support to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC during the general elections, on Monday, sent its representative to testify before the Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja.

A representative of the company, Clarita Ogar, mounted the box as the 7th witness in the petition that the Labour Party and its candidate, Peter Obi, filed to nullify the election of President Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

Contrary to the position of INEC, the witness, who was led in evidence by a member of Obi’s legal team, told the court that it did not record any technical glitch in the country on the day of the presidential election.

You will recall that the electoral body had blamed its inability to electronically transmit results of the presidential poll to its viewing portal, in real-time, using the Bimodal Voter Accreditation, BVAS, machines, on technical glitches it experienced on election day.

However, in her evidence on Monday, the witness who identified herself as a cloud engineer and an Architect tendered six volumes of reports from 33 regions of the world where Amazon Web Services host its servers.

According to the witness, the regions, are; North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Oceania and Europe.

She told the court that there was no technical glitch across all six continents housing their cloud services on February 25, 2023.

Though all the Respondents opposed the evidence of the witness, however, Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel admitted all the documents as Exhibits in the matter.