Amazon Staff Report to Court Shows No Glitches on February 25

A staff member of Amazon Web Services has submitted testimony that disputes the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) assertion that technical difficulties prevented it from electronically transmitting results from polling places across the nation to its Result Viewing Portal (IREV) during the February 25 presidential elections, according to a report made public an hour ago by renowned attorney and leader of the Labour Party, Barrister Kenneth Okonkwo.

A staff member of the company that provides cloud services to INEC was presented, according to Okonkwo, a member of the legal team defending the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Gregory Obi, at the ongoing Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja, in a tweet he posted on his Twitter account on Monday evening.

He claims that the thorough report given by the American business demonstrates that on February 25, 2023, the day INEC held the presidential and national assembly elections in Nigeria, there were no errors in any of the systems utilizing its services everywhere in the world.

As stated by Okonkwo, “June 19, 2023. The petition was presented today with the testimony of a new witness, Mpeh Clarity Ogar, a cloud engineer and architect who lives in Maryland, United States. She is employed with Amazon Web Services, Inc. According to the report, there were no worldwide technical issues with their services on February 25, 2023, with the transfer and transmission of any data from one platform to another.