Hearing continued yesterday 2nd Feb, 2017 in the ongoing Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal holden in Benin City.

Majority of petitioner’s witnesses have testified to the many incidents of non-accreditation of voters and over voting occasioned by the disparity in the number of used and unused ballot papers during the September 28 2016 governorship elections in Edo state.

The witnesses gave their testimonies today at the resumed hearing of the Electoral Tribunal of the petition by Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and the PDP challenging the INEC results of the September 28 2016 Edo state governorship election.

In all, the eight witnesses appeared for the petitioner were from Egor and Orhionwon local government areas and had among them Ward collation agents like constitutional lawyer and Law Professor at the University of Benin, Edoba Omoregie.

Omoregie who told the tribunal that he could not say if he was accredited to vote in the election unless he sees the INEC voters register‎ said his complaints as contained in his deposition were inappropriate accreditation and over-voting.

On how he came to the conclusion as regards overvoting he said, the number of used and unused ballot papers in unit 010‎, he noticed did not tall)n argiung that whereas 335 were accredited as voters the result sheet showed that 340 voted.

‎He told the tribunal that, “My unit is clustered with other units, so this afforded me the opportunity to move around and as a ward collation officer also other PU agents submitted their various results to me”Hon Tony Osazuwa who was collation agent of the PDP for Evbueghae Ward in Orhionwon local government area, admitted that he did not vote in the elections though he is a registered voter in Unit 4

He told the tribunal that there were no elections in 4 out of the 21 polling units and blamed this on the malpractices that characterized the process in the listed polling units in the Ward.

Asked how he came to the conclusions he said based on complaints he received from the polling agents scattered all over the Ward, he undertook the task of going round and confirmed their assertions to be true.

Other witnesses like Messrs Osamede Edebiri in his deposition before the tribunal said, ” I observed that there was total absence of accreditation”, in the 28 polling units in his Ward in Egor local government of the state.

Victor Agbonze, Ogbebor Clement, Jonathan Alohan, Edosonmwan Samuel and Omoregbe Esosa who also testified before the tribunal at the sitting were all agreed that either voting took place without accreditation in many polling units or that result sheets were mutilated.

STORIES FOR THE GODS. IZE IYAMU SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON HIS PASTORAL CALLING.

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STORIES FOR THE GODS. IZE IYAMU SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON HIS PASTORAL CALLING.

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