ANAMBRA STATE ELECTION TRIBUNAL PANEL 2, HAVE PROVED TO BE AGENTS OF ACN.

As the corruption in our judicial system lingers, one wonder if there is any hope for the common man in the court room. Some weeks back when The All Progressive Grand Alliance Party, APGA wrote a petition to the president of the court of appeal allegeing that the Anambra state election tribunal panel 2 has been compromised by the Action Congress of Nigeria ACN, having traced the origin of the panel's chairman and the fact that the woman was made a judge by Bola Tinubu and that the panel was constituted by Salami.

We Anambrarians said its mere speculations but jst yesterday the tribunal danced naked to the market, delivered a judgement which even a common man can only but describe as a fraud.

The Idemili South House of Assembly Election of the 26th April 2011 was charaterised with violence, voting by unaccredited persons and snachting of election material in some polling unit of Ojoto ward is an established fact. In most area's like in Afor hall the thugs wher over powered by the police men and the election continued. After the election it was alleged that the orinating results forms EC8A1 collated at the booth was not used to compile the ward result form EC8B1. Bogus scores wher allocated to the Apga candidate and he got about 4,635 only in Ojoto Ward. At the constituency collation center that nigth the ACN candidate Ebele Obi complained and also stated in writing of over voting in ojoto ward. The PDP candidate Sir Ifeanyi Igwe complained of changing most originating results and using fake booth results to manufacture bogus scores which was collated by the ward collation officer for the Apga team which collabulated with the report of the police and that of the SSS. After sorting the opinion of all the stake holders present, the constituency collation/returning officer rejected the Ojoto ward results already collated and requested for a re-run in the said ward.

Apga candidate and his thugs protested the cancellation and asked to be declared the winner since if Ojoto ward vote is added to his 3,241 votes scored in the other 11 wards he wil be leading in the votes with 7,876, PDP= 6,723 and ACN=6,701.

On the 6th of May, instead of INEC to conduct a re-run in the Ojoto Ward, INEC conspired with the peter obi apga lead govt. And declared the Apga candidate Tony Uche-Ezekwulu winner.

The PDP candidate filled a petition, applied to INEC for a certified true copies (c.t.c) of the results used to declare the Apga candidate winner. Upon issuance of the results he discovered that the original result forms EC8A1 (polling unit results) on INEC custody was the true reflection of election results and he the PDP candidate scored the highest number of votes. But in the Ojoto ward collation results, bogus unearned figures wher used in favour of the Apga candidate.

The ACN who also saw that the true results of Ojoto shows the PDP candidate in the lead only asked the court to stand on the earlier decision of the returning officer and order for a re-run in the Ojoto ward since the Ojoto result has become controversial. The PDP candidate asked to be declared winner of the election since the originating results form EC8A1 showed he won on the ground.

On the point of Law, the issue in contention is ''Do the returning officer have the powers to cancelled an already collated result from a ward?'' The answer is NO (case of Sen. David mark 2007).

The judgement delivered yesterday, the judges said they beleived the witnesses called by the PDP candidate of how the thugs changed the main results after collation at the polling unit. There went ahead to accept the fact that the PDP candidate dully applied to INEC to be issued a C.T.C of the election results and it was issued to him.
They now concluded that since the Ojoto results is in contention that it is beter to cancel the Ojoto ward result. Instead of the panel to order a re-run election in the ward since the ward has a voting strenght of 12,000 (twelve thousand) registered voters, there went ahead to declare the ACN candidate winner who is only leading with 200(two hundred) votes.

What a miscarriage of justice!!!, naturally since the margin is just two hundred and the voters at stake is twelve thousand representing almost 12.5% out of 98,000 registered voters of the local government, there should have ordered a re-run.