The Independent National Electoral Commission should probe the alleged fabrication of its monitoring report of the Labour Party primary election in Enugu West Senatorial District on June 8, 2022, according to Hon. Chukwuemeka Aneke, a Peoples Democratic Party figure.
He claimed that there were anomalies between a Certified True Copy received from INEC and documents filed to the court in support of the LP senatorial primary election cases.
Aneke, through his lawyers, Bonaventure Madu and Tobechukwu Enem, demanded that INEC investigate the alleged forgery and punish the perpetrators in a petition dated November 10 and addressed to INEC chairman, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood.
He said upon their request, INEC had, on July 22, issued them a copy of its Monitoring Report for the Enugu West Senatorial District primary held on June 8, 2022.
The petitioner said during court proceedings on November 7, in the suit No. FHC/AB3/CS/1194/2022, at a Federal High Court in Abuja, “INEC attached and exhibited a totally different and doctored report, dated September 9, and certified by one Ahmed Goni.”
In view of the above discrepancies between the two INEC reports, Aneke therefore demanded that INEC immediately withdrew the forged document from court within one week and prosecute officials of the commission involved in the criminal act.
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He warned that if INEC failed to withdraw the forged monitoring report and commence the prosecution of the officials involved, he would have no option than to press a criminal charge against the said officials and the commission and follow it up with a civil suit.
The letter read in part, “Curiously, during the court proceedings on November 7, 2022, in the said suit No. FHC/AB3/CS/1194/2022 at the Federal High Court, Abuja, your commission attached and exhibited a totally different and doctored INEC report of the Labour Party senatorial districts of Enugu State, dated September 9, 2022, and certified by one Ahmed Goni, and was tendered by Alhaji Abdulaziz Sani.”
According to the letter, while the forged report bears only one sub-item, which is the summary of the Enugu East Senatorial District Primary, the genuine INEC Monitoring Report bears the report of the three senatorial district primaries of Enugu State.
“The forged INEC report did not bear the INEC field teams’ report made by the monitoring team lead, Ezeabasill Kene, the Electoral officer of Ezeagu Local Government to the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Enugu State, indicating what actually happened at the venue of the primary election, which report is attached to Annexure 2 and is our genuine INEC Monitoring Report”, the petitioners said.
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