Bola Ajao, the first witness of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in
the August 9 governorship election in Osun
State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, yesterday gave
evidence before the Election Petition
Tribunal.
Ajao, who is the PDP Secretary, told the
tribunal that voters were allowed to be
accredited and voted freely in the election.
He was cross-examined by counsel to
Governor Rauf Aregbesola, the All
Progressives Congress (APC) and the
Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC), Charles Edosonwan, Yomi Aliu, and
Ayotunde Ogunleye.
Ajao said his claim on the alleged rigging of
the election was not witnessed by him,
adding, “I was told by my party agents”.
Responding to questions from Edonsonwan,
he said: “I got to my Ward 8, Unit 9 of
Ifelodun Local Government at 6:30 am on
the election day, accreditation started by
8am and voting started at 12:30 pm.
“I passed through the same process and I
voted on that day. I did not leave my unit
until after the election. My party lost in my
polling unit. My testimonies on other units
that our party is challenging are based on
what I was told by my agents. I was not
there.
“Omisore contested for a senatorial slot in
2011, but lost along with other party
candidates. We did not challenge the
election in court. I don’t know the number
of polling units we are challenging.”
While being cross-examined by INEC’s
counsel, Ajao said he followed all the
processes required from accreditation to
voting, adding that after accreditations,
people were allowed to vote.
In his answer to the question from APC
counsel, the witness confirmed to the
tribunal that the result sheets for each of the
local governments in contention were
signed by PDP supervisors on the election
day.
The second and third witnesses, Kolapo
Sikiru and Gbadebo Adeyemo, who claimed
to be PDP ward supervisors in Ward 1 and
Ward 2 of Osogbo Local Government,
confirmed that their polling agents signed
the result forms for each of the units, except
for a few.
Contrary to his claim that the result sheets of
unit 2,3,4 and 5 of Ward 2 were not signed
by his party agent, as deposed to in his
witness statement, Gbadebo was
confronted with the duplicate result for the
units that were tendered by the petitioners’
counsel which bore the signature of the
agents and the witness was dumbfounded.
At this point, there were altercations
between counsel to the petitioners and the
first respondents, as the former accused the
latter of interjecting the cross-examination
of the witnesses at the detriment of the 20
minutes permitted to cross-examine the
witness.
The intervention of the judges brought the
altercations under control.
Edosonwan and Ogunleye said the
testimonies of the petitioners’ witnesses
had vindicated the respondents that the
petition had no merit.
They were optimistic that more of such
vindication would unfold in the course of
cross-examining other witnesses.
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spillyboy14:
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J for johnbull, re u one? #spacebookers

Kilon leje. Ejelege. Igbin leje. Iro nla. Pdp o rig. Iro nla.



I smell lies

They were expecting him to lie like them.

omenka:
They were expecting him to lie like them.

maybe na SU abi alfa najimu dem go call to stand as witness..

They are just wasting their time...