According to a witness for Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate for president in the elections of February 25, “magic” was allegedly used on Abubakar’s ballots at various collation centers.
The witness, Ndubuisi Nwobu, asserted that Peter Obi, a candidate for the Labour Party, had the Anambra state election rigged.
Obi won Anambra state with 584,621 votes, according to the Independent Electoral Commission’s results.
Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress won 5,111 votes, while Atiku Abubakar received 9,036 votes.
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On Wednesday, Nwobu, the party’s state collation agent and chairman of the Anambra PDP, gave testimony before the presidential election tribunal.
He said that the presiding officers failed to upload the results after the ballots were counted.
On election day, Nwobu claimed he visited about 30 of the state’s 4,720 polling places, but that he was forced to sign the election’s result sheet at the state collation center.
He wouldn’t have received a copy of the outcomes without his signature.
Nwobu said, “I signed the result sheet when it was obvious that without signing, a copy would not be made available to me.
“Results were entered at polling units. But, every effort made to get the presiding officer to upload it on IREV proved abortive.”
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When asked if PDP agents signed the result sheets at polling units before their transport to the collation centre, Nwobu affirmed.
He said, “They were taken to the collation centre at the ward level. That is where the magic started happening.”
He also noted difficulties with presiding officers at polling units.
Nwobu testified that he had to step in at times to protect INEC officials from confrontations with voters and agents from other parties.
“Even in certain instances, I had to intervene to ensure that some of the polling officers were not attacked by voters and other political party agents,” Nwobu shared.
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Nwobu is the eleventh witness of Atiku Abubakar to testify before the five-member panel, headed by Haruna Tsammani.
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