Some members of the Peoples Democratic Party who served as the party’s agents during the April 11, 2015 governorship election in Akwa Ibom State admitted signing multiple result sheets while testifying before the state Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Monday.
The agents were testifying for Governor Udom Emmanuel of the PDP whose election as governor is being challenged before the tribunal by the All Progressives Congress and its candidate in the poll, Mr. Umana Umana. Andy, while testifying on Monday denied the petitioners’ allegation that election only took place in two out of the 161 polling units in Ibiono-Ibom Local Government Area.
He admitted serving as the PDP agent for the local government and for Ikot Ikpo Ward 6 during the election. When the petitioners’ lawyer, Mr. Dayo Akinlaja (SAN), asked him what the distance between the local government and ward collation agents was, he said he could not tell the distance in kilometres “but it is not far.
”He said the PDP had agents in all the wards in the local government. But when the petitioners’ lawyer confronted him with the list of the agents for the wards in the local government, he admitted them as being the list of approved agents but his name was not on the list.
He also confirmed, when confronted with the result sheets, that no political agent including that of the PDP signed the result sheets of three out of the 11 wards in the local government.
Governor Emmanuel, represented by Mr. Paul Usoro (SAN), has so far called 19 witnesses. The proceedings continue Tuesday.
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