The Electoral Commission has this morning surrendered the declaration forms and tally sheets of the February 18 presidential election to Amama’s legal team for scrutiny. This follows a Supreme Court order to the EC on Tuesday, to avail the said material to Mbabazi’s lawyer.
Yesterday, Mbabazi lawyer Sevrino Twinobusingye told court that EC lawyers had lied to court that they had given them the declaration forms on Wednnesday, yet in the actual sense they had just allowed them to inspect the documents. He also suggested that the forms they had been shown are forged as they bear one handwriting although they come from different parts of the country, and he suggested once they receive the forms from EC they are to seek the expertise of a handwriting expert.
Today morning EC lead lawyer Enos Tumusiime told the panel of nine justices of the Supreme Court (led by the Chief Justice Bart Katureebe) that the EC has finally surrendered the declaration forms for all the 28,010 polling stations of the 2016 elections, as well as the tally sheets the EC used to declare President Museveni winner.
Mr Michaela Akampurira, one of the counsel for Mbabazi team, confirmed to the judges that that his team has indeed been served with the said copies.
The issue of not being served with declaration forms is one of the backbones of Amama Mbabazi’s challenge of the results of the February 18 election, where at Mr. Mbabazi’s legal team says the EC just forged results different from what was down at the polling stations.
It remains to be seen if the results on EC’s decaration forms will be judged to be real of forged, and this will be a key determinant of the final decision by the judges on March 31.