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The Presidential Election Petition Court has admitted the final report of the European Union Election Observer Mission in Nigeria, which faulted the conduct of the February 25 presidential election. The panel, presided by Justice Haruna Tsammani, admitted the document after it was tendered by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The EU mission claimed the election did not show credibility, fairness, and transparency, with only 31% of the results uploaded on IREV. The court agreed with the PDP counsel, who admitted that the electoral body had no electronic collation system for election results. The INEC witness admitted that the collation of the results was done manually by the presiding officers of the electoral body. The witness also admitted that a technical glitch affected the uploading of the results, but it was not reported to Amazon Web Services by the INEC.