Voter register was not used in some polling units in Orumba South Local
Government Area of Anambra state during the conduct of the Feb. 23
Senatorial Election a witness has told the Election Petitions Tribunal
sitting in Awka.
Mr Bright Nebedum, who testified for Chief Chris Uba of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) in his petition against Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah said
this at the resumed hearing of consolidated petition no.
EPT/AN/SEN/11/2019 on Monday.
Nebedum who was introduced by George Igbokwe SAN, counsel to Chris Uba
said he worked as PDP local government agent for Orumba South.
He said there were issues in the result from the local government due to
inconsistencies.
The witness who had earlier identified smart card reader reports, voter
register, ward and local government results he deposed in his affidavit
said the election lacked substantial compliance.
Nebedum who was cross examined by Obinna Adindu Esq. and John Asoluka
Esq. counsels to INEC and Sent.Ubah respectively, said most of the
results were not signed by PDP agents and those that were signed must
have been done by impostors.
He cited some of the polling units where Voter register was not used to
INEC include Eziagu ward 01, Eziagu ward 05 and Eziagu before counsel to
See. Ubah called him to order.
When asked how possible it was to generate card reader report from
polling units where he claimed voter register was not used, Nebedum said
that was why they were in court.
He alleged that people were authenticated via the card reader machine
and allowed to vote without reference to Voter registers, adding that it
was responsible for the non-tally of figures from the voter register,
smart card reader and poll result.
Also testifying, Josephat Uzor who said he worked as PDP agent in Nnewi
South told the tribunal that though he was not a professional
statistician, he was involved in the preparation of chats in his
depositions as he provided all the material for it.
Uzor said he did consider all the political parries that took part in
the election affidavit because most of them were relatively not known
and irrelevant to his witness.
He was referee to some portions of his affidavit where APGA won in some
wards and asked if he also had problems with those results, he said yes
on the grounds that the results, Voter register and card reader were
inconsistent.
Also testifying, Mr Samuel Chukwu Anyakagu, the PDP local government
collation agent in Ihiala council area also denied signing any result
from the local government.
Anyakagu said unidentified thugs chased them away with weapons including
machetes and forced INEC officials to sign result adding that there were
no results in the pulling unit he voted.
“The thugs chased us out of the pulling unit with machetes and dangerous
weapons, there was confusion in the unit.
“INEC officials signed those documents under duress because men came and
held them hostage. I saw some signatures but they are not PDP agents
that signed them,” he said.
Other witnesses that testified on Monday were PDP collation agent for
Orumba North, Aguata and Ekwusigo.
The six witnesses that testified brought the number of Uba’ s witnesses
to a total of 14.
Hon. Justice Thelma Okara chairman of the tribunal adjourned the matter
to Aug. 1 for petitioner to close his case.