SUN ELECTION PETITION TRIBUNAL UPDATE Aregbesola voted in my unit-Omisores witness. BY Ibrahim Lawal Esq The drama at the Election Petition Tribunal continued today as a witness from Oriade Local Government claimed under cross examination that Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola voted in his unit. Mr Oluwaseun Fapohunda who claimed he voted in unit 14 , ward 3 of Oriade Local Government was asked to show the tribunal allegation of over- voting which he claimed was apparent in his witness statement on oath failed to do so even when he was obliged a reading glasses by the petitioners counsel, kunle Adegoke Esq. He also stated that he did not have any pictures of canopies erected in each of the polling units where APC members were winning and dinning. For Mr. Adejare Moshood, he confessed during cross-examination that he cannot see any super- imposition of any result in Exhibit 192 and 207 which is the result tendered for all the units and ward, contrary to paragraph 5 of his statement on oath. When asked what he meant by super- imposition, he saidwhen you see something bad and you complain about it and nobody attends to it. Habeeb Trimisiyu Oluwafemi, supervisor in ward 4 Ayedaade Local Government claimed he voted in unit 4. He claimed in his witness statement on oath that agents of APC were busy awarding votes arbitrarily to the Respondents. When he was asked to mention the name of those agents, he said he does not know them. He was further asked to point out the genuine votes and the inflated votes as claimed in his witness statement on oath which he said he cannot identify. He also testified to the effect that when votes were counted in his unit or anywhere in his ward he was not present and when it was being recorded he was not in any unit. He also said he did not know the number of APC members in his ward neither did he know the number of PDP in his ward. He also said he personally analysed the result of all the units submitted to him. When asked whether there was any difference in EC8A and EC8B which he signed he reply in the affirmative that there was no difference in figures. At 2.25 pm, the Petitioners Counsel asked for the leave of court to bring in polling documents used on August 9,2014. The court ruled that the materials be brought in before the court resumed after the break.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 04:18:45 +0000
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