GROUNDBREAKING JUDGEMENT!! Obaseki To Be Booted Out Immediately, As Tribunal Moves To Cancel Edo Governorship Poll

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The Electoral Tribunal, sitting in Benin, may cancel the September 28, 2016 Governorship election that saw the emergence of Godwin Obaseki, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the Edo State Governor, defeating the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu.

The move came on Friday, when the witnesses called by the third respondent, the APC in its defence in the petition filed by the PDP challenging the declaration of Obaseki as winner of the Governorship election, were totally confused about the conflicts in figures between the votes cast, and the ballot papers used during the election.

All of them who were confronted with the conflicting figures on the INEC form EC8A or result sheets, and the ballot papers INEC issued at the polling units during the election, spoke in one voice.

INEC LOGO Oladele Ebenezer, Malik Fatai, Francis Akpedi, and Daniel Ogudo, who were APC agents from Akoko-Edo, Etsako East, and Esan West Local Government Areas of the State, said they did know how the conflicts emerged, despite admitting in their written depositions that all went well on the election day.

Under cross-examination by Counsel to the petitioners, Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, Maliki Fatai, a Businessman and Politician from Igarra, in Akoko-Edo LGA, using the INEC voters register, acknowledged that his name was only ticked to the left, but not to the right.

On the figures, he said he did not know how the actual used ballot papers in his ward stood to 3, 894, while the total returned votes was 4, 161, with the balance ballot papers uncounted for.

Francis Akpedi, a Public Servant from Agenebode, in Etsako East LGA, while being cross examined by Pinheiro, that the actual used ballot papers in his ward stood at  29,901, with the total returned votes at 31,914, and a difference of 2013 ballot papers, told the court: “I don’t know”.

In the same vein, Daniel Ogudo, a Businessman from Ekpoma, in Esan West LGA, told the court under cross examination by the petitioners’ Counsel, that though he was the APC agent, but was absent when the results of unit 5 ward 4 was entered into the form EC8A.

The Chairman of the three member Tribunal, Justice Ahmed Badamasi, after listening to a motion moved by the 3rd respondent for an adjournment, fixed sitting of the Tribunal for Wednesday, 15th March, 2017.

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