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EDO GUBER POLL: PDP presents 988 voters’ register to Tribunal as evidence

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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has presented a total of 988 INEC Voters Registers as evidence to the Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Benin City, Edo state.

The party and its candidate in the September 28 2016 Edo state governorship elections, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu had dragged the opposition APC and INEC before the Tribunal to contest the result of the poll, which it claimed was seriously rigged.

The registers which were also admitted in evidence and admitted as exhibits by the tribunal, were INEC’s Verified register of all eligible voters for 12 out of the 18 local governments in the state.

The registers which were tendered by Mr Roland Otaru, SAN in his capacity as the counsel for the PDP and Pastor Ize-Iyamu were those used for polling units/voting centres in Akoko Edo, Egor, Igueben, Etsako West, Owan West, Etsako Central, and Etsako East.

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The rest were for Ovia southwest and Ovia Northeast , Owan East, Esan Central and Ikpoba okha local government council areas which were also admitted in evidence and labeled as exhibits by the tribunal.

Otaru tendered 79 copies of the INEC voters register for Etsako central, 84 for Etsako East, 97 for Ovia south west, 144 for Ovia Northeast, 160 for Owan East, 85 for Esan Central and 339 for Ikpoba-Okha local government areas.

It would be recalled that last week, the INEC voters register for 5 local governments were also tendered, by Mr Yusuf Ali, SAN, admitted as evidence and marked exhibits by the tribunal.

The affected local governments and voters register were Akoko-Edo, Egor, Igueben, Etsako West and Owan West.

It is expected that the tribunal will receive the registers for the remanning six local government areas before adjourning proceedings.

The evidences were however not objected to neither by the counsels to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Governor Godwin Obaseki nor the All Peoples Congress, APC.

After examining the copies of the voters register presented to them by an official of the tribunal counsels to the INEC, Governor Obaseki and the APC replied , “No objection”, which facilitated their acceptance as evidence.

INEC, Obaseki and APC are first to third respondents respectively, in the petition filed by Ize-Iyamu and the PDP challenging the INEC declaration of Obaseki and the APC winner of the September 28 2016 governorship elections in the state.

The tribunal chairman, Mr Justice Ahmed Badamasi, presided over Friday’s sitting along with the two other members of the panel which proceeded on break as at the time of this report.

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  1. Johnson Amadi

    January 27, 2017 at 6:21 pm

    My instincts told me the election was rigged. APC and INEC joined forces together against PDP, but there’s nothing PDP can do, they’ve lost. They will only keep dragging the case in court until Obaseki’s tenure ends

    • Balarabe musa

      January 27, 2017 at 7:15 pm

      When your instinct tells you or not , inform your instinct that Apc and obaseki are in charge of edo state. Right to fair hearing is allowed for pdp but the judgement to overrule the election is disallowed

  2. Margret Dickson

    January 27, 2017 at 6:25 pm

    PDP is just wasting their time and energy on this case. No matter how many evidences they present before the tribunal, they wont change the fact that the party lost the election and their people remain loosers

    • JOHNSON PETER

      January 27, 2017 at 8:38 pm

      It will change many things with concrete evidences. Our judiciary is now unbias , so if pdp can proof their facts beyond reasonable doubts, iyamu can still be station as the new governor.

      • yanju omotodun

        January 27, 2017 at 8:43 pm

        Lol. Bro , you are funny. So you think our judges are now independent . Mtchew. Lawyers will just make money from them pdp and nothing will come out of it.

        • Agbolua Adagbiogwa

          January 29, 2017 at 7:56 pm

          The truth u just said and nothing but the truth

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