The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), on Thursday, presented two results sheets for Nangere local government
area of Yobe state at the presidential election tribunal.
While presenting the documents,
Mohammed Garba, head of the five-man panel, found that form EC8C of the local
government result were two two instead of one.
Responding to the judge’s query
over which of the result should be admitted, Livy Uzoukwu, counsel to the the
PDP and Atiku Abubakar, the party’s presidential candidate in the 2019
election, told the tribunal that “we got the two documents from INEC. So we are
tendering the two.”
The two result sheets were
subsequently admitted by the tribunal as exhibits PYB 1101 and PYB 1101A.
In their own argument, however,
Yunus Usman, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) representing the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mike Igbokwe (SAN) representing President
Muhamadu Buhari and Yakubu Maikyau (SAN), representing the All Progressive
Congress (APC), objected to the tribunal’s acceptance of the documents.
Adamu Abubakar, an INEC returning
officer in the Yobe south senatorial election, also said there were alterations
during the collation of results for the senatorial election.
Abubakar, who monitored the
election in Nangere, admitted this while being cross-examined by Paul Erokoro
(SAN) who is counsel to Mohammed Hassan, the petitioner.
According to him, there were
cancellation and alterations in some of the result sheets used for the
election, and some were torn and
corrections effected.
He also admitted before the
tribunal that a total of 12 alterations were made and that the changes were not
countersigned.
“During our training, we were
told to make amendment on issues that seem so confusing to us, I discarded some
forms after receiving them,” he said.
“I had a training as a local
government collation officer, I was familiarised with forms used for the
election like EC8B, EC8C, I know a voter register as a voter, but as a
collation officer, that was not part of my training.”
Hassan, senatorial candidate of
the PDP had dragged Ibrahim Bomoi of the All APC before the tribunal.
He had alleged in his petition
that there were series of irregularities observed during the election and that
on that ground Bomoi did not score the highest lawful votes cast.
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