Mpeh Clarita Ogar, a witness for the Labour Party (LP) candidate for president in the February 25 presidential election, admitted on Tuesday at the Presidential Election Petition Court that the Amazon Web Services Incorporation has not authorized her to testify in the petitions challenging the election.

Mrs Ogar is an architect and cloud engineer for the International Company.

She informed the judges that she was appearing in court in her capacity to provide testimony in the petition Peter Gregory Obi and his Labour Party filed to challenge the declaration of Tinubu as the election's victor.

Under cross-examination by counsel for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN), the witness, who was introduced in evidence by the petitioner's attorney, Mr Patrick Ikwueto (SAN), stated to the court on Tuesday that she was in court about the petition in her capacity rather than on behalf of her employer.

According to the witness, “The Subpoena was not delivered to Amazon but delivered to me. Am here as an expert witness, am not here on the mandate of Amazon and, it is not true that am here as a Labour Party activist”.

Clarita Ogar stated that there were no technical issues on February 25, 2023, when the Presidential election was held in response to a query from the counsel of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Lateef Fagbemi (SAN).

The chairman of INEC, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood, also participated in the hearings on Tuesday. He responded to the subpoenas issued to him on May 30 and June 13, 2023, by providing some papers through two senior Commission employees.

The subpoena dated May 30 issued on the INEC chairman was presented with the documents by Mrs Moronkeji Tairu, deputy director of INEC's Department of Certification and Complaints.

She claimed that some of the petitioners' requested documents were not in the Commission's possession and that others came from INEC offices spread out across the states, making it logistically impossible to produce them as of Tuesday. She also stated that the Commission had been served with a subpoena dated May 30 on Monday.