Eye-Witness: "I Saw Dead People Who Voted At Anambra Senatorial Poll"

The Anambra State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Awka, resumed hearing on August 19, 2015 in the petition by Engr. Ernest Ndukwe, former Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC, boss and All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, senatorial candidate in the March 28 senatorial election in Anambra South senatorial zone.

Earlier in the proceedings, the petitioners’ witnesses had testified and tendered duplicate original copies of result sheets in customised form, which they retrieved from election officials from the field immediately after the election, and which copies were also given to the security agencies, showing that Engr. Ndukwe had majority of the lawful votes cast at the election.

The witnesses, who were polling agents in the elections, denied knowledge of the use of any “non-customized” result sheets (written in long hand instead of printed) or “Voting Point, VP” result sheets produced by Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, officials as the results for the same election.

One of the petitioners’ witnesses, Chief Orajiaka, former Special Adviser to the state governor and community leader in Uli, during cross examination, said that no election was conducted in Uli ward 1, and threw the whole court into laughter when asked about the voters’ register purportedly used for the election in Uli ward 1 and Lilu ward.

He said: “It will be a disaster for democracy to declare that election took place in the two wards,” adding that even the voters’ register uploaded by INEC contains the names of dead people, who allegedly voted in the elections conducted by INEC in Uli and Lilu.”
Engr. Ndukwe, had under cross examination, stated that he was in the tribunal to have a recalculation of the scores of the election from legitimate result sheets.

He stated that “in the recalculation, every result on voting point result sheet has to be excluded and every result on non-customised result sheet is a no go area.”

He questioned how INEC could write the results of an entire ward on “Voting Point” result sheets when original customised result sheets were provided for all polling units.

He bemoaned the conduct of some INEC staff in election generally and wondered whether as an organization, there were no internal mechanisms in INEC for checking the activities and excesses of errant staff.

Ndukwe, is challenging the declaration of Senator Andy Ubah as winner of the election by INEC, and had stated in his deposition that Senator Ubah was not qualified to contest the election, having serially submitted to INEC suspected forged certificates.

Ndukwe, specifically said, under cross examination by Senator Ubah’s counsel, that he was surprised that it was Ubah’s lawyers that presented in open court, the controversial Senior Secondary School Certificate submitted by Ubah to INEC.

Ndukwe stated that the certificate could not have been authentic because as at the date in 1974 when the certificate was purported to have been issued, “there was no senior school certificate in Nigeria. If there was no such educational policy in 1974, then the certificate is obviously not genuine.”

Ndukwe, who called 13 witnesses, had closed his case and the respondents were expected to open their defence at the resumption of the case.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/dead-persons-voted-at-anambra-senatorial-poll-witness/#sthash.Zs57u34Z.dpuf

CLICK HERE to follow us on Google+

Homepage