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Akwa Ibom Tribunal: Why I Signed 15 Wards' Result Sheets-pdp Witness by shaddoww: 9:50pm On Sep 04, 2015 |
A defence witness at the Akwa Ibom State
Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, Bassey
Willie, admitted on Friday that he signed all the
result sheets for Oron Local Government Area of
the state during the April 11 governorship poll.
Willie, who said this during his testimony, is one
of the defence witnesses for Akwa Ibom State
Governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, of the Peoples
Democratic Party, whose victory at the April poll
is being challenged by the governorship
candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Mr.
Umana Umana, at the tribunal, which sits in
Abuja.
Willie said the result sheets were signed by one
agent due to the inability of other wards collation
agents to get to the Local Government Collation
Centre because the engine of the boat,
conveying them to the collation centre,
developed a fault.
He admitted that he was the Local Government
Collation Agent, adding that he signed the result
sheets for Ward 4, even though one Elder Effiong
Atanang was the PDP Ward 4 agent.
Atanang had, however, claimed that he signed
the Ward 4 result sheet.
Willie, during cross examination, also told the
tribunal that election results could be collated
outside the ward collation centres “as was the
case in Oron”.
He explained that lightning and security issue
made it impossible for election results to be
collated at designated collation centres, saying
the collation was done elsewhere with the
support of security agents and INEC officials.
Another witness, a former PDP state chairman,
Uwem Etuk, during cross examination, told the
respondent’s counsel, Dayo Akinlaja (SAN), that
“if anyone says no election took place in the
area, then INEC should be told to answer for it”.
Counsel for INEC, Obinna Onyia, declined cross
examining the witness.
Mr. Jude Edet, a witness and the Local
Government collation agent for Ibesikpo Asutan,
said it was wrong for Dr. Ita Udosen and former
governor Victor Attah to have testified that there
was no election in the area.
Denying knowing the names of other PDP ward
agents in the area, he, however, admitted that it
was wrong for total votes cast to be higher than
total number of accredited voters.
He said such a development amounted to fraud.
“Ghost can’t vote,” he added.
After the testimony of these witnesses, the
respondents counsel, Paul Usoro, who had earlier
pledged to call eight witnesses, asked the court
for an adjournment.
“My Lord, we have had enough from this
witnesses for today,” Usoro added.
The tribunal adjourned hearing in the case to
Monday. |
Re: Akwa Ibom Tribunal: Why I Signed 15 Wards' Result Sheets-pdp Witness by 1stGenius(m): 9:51pm On Sep 04, 2015 |
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Re: Akwa Ibom Tribunal: Why I Signed 15 Wards' Result Sheets-pdp Witness by hassey(m): 10:41pm On Sep 04, 2015 |
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