How Senator Godswill Akpabio was robbed by INEC with over 60,000Votes

The emanating revelation from Dr. Olosunde Williams, the PDP witness, who was the collation officer at the Presidential and National Assembly Elections, has just given a new twist to the aggravated case of Senator Akpabio at the on-going petitions tribunal. Dr. Williams was tape-recorded and actually confirmed to his girlfriend that the INEC-REC, Mike Igini, ordered him to cancel Senator Akpabio's votes at the INEC office in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital. In the voice-recorded, he confirmed that Akpabio polled over 60,000 votes in Essien Udim Local Government Area of the state. This revelation has just added more facts to the enabling facts that Godswill Akpabio was indeed cheated out of the election, which was duly and overwhelmingly won by the former two-time governor of the state. This is about the greatest display of corruption and indiscriminate abuse of office by Mike Igini and his cohorts in PDP.


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Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial Election : I Contested Against INEC And PDP, Says Akpabio

Senator Godswill Akpabio has disclosed that he contested against the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC at the Akwa Ibom North West senatorial district election held on February 23.
Akpabio said the election that produced Chris Ekpenyong of the PDP as the winer of the election was highly skewed against him by the electoral umpire, the INEC.
Akpabio made the allegation when speaking as evidence in chief in a petition he filed at the National Assembly Election Petitions sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, challenging the declaration of Ekpenyong as winner of the election.
Led in evidence by his counsel, Sunday Ameh, Akpabio said: “If this is (election) how INEC is going to conduct election in Nigeria, it is a pity.”
The former governor of Akwa-Ibom state further disclosed in his testimony that INEC showed a great deal of bias against him by mutilating result from many units and wards in the senatorial district to make sure votes to him were either reduced or invalidated to make them insignificant in overall result in the district.
Akpabio, who was visibly agitated in the witness box, told the court he felt so bad that the election which he got majority of votes cast was mutilated to favour his opponent.
While accusing INEC of hooding election materials when he requested them to prepare his case, Akpabio said, “It was what INEC gave me that I relied on to prepare my case. Out of 169 units in the senatorial district, only in 116 polling units INEC gave us true certified copy of the result sheet.”
When told by the first respondent (Ekpenyong’s) counsel, U. U Njoku, that his claims to winning the election was based on invalidated votes, Akpabio said: “Majority of votes cast for me were lawful while those for my opponent were unlawful.”
In response to Solomon Umoh’s claims, counsel to the second respondent, the PDP, that he (Akpabio) did not vote during the election, because there was no election in his polling unit, Akpabio said it was a great disservice by INEC to say that the result from his polling unit 9, Ward 11 in Ukana West 2 were not recorded in final result sheet for the local government.
Also, answering question from INEC’s counsel, Robert Emukpoeru, that he (Akpabio) did not apply for smart card reader and voters’ register because they will not support his case, Akpabio said he knew that they were sensitive materials which were exclusive to INEC.
Earlier, the three-man tribunal had over ruled the second respondent’ counsel, Umoh , who objected to the admissibility of police report which confirmed that election was peaceful in the petitioner’s polling unit as against INEC’s claims that the result from the polling unit was cancelled due to violence.
But the tribunal in a ruling dismissed the objection raised by Umoh that a witness cannot give evidence on an exhibit that he had not been listed in his deposition and affidavit on oath, insisting that it was not listed among the evidence in his deposition.
In a ruling, Chairman of the panel, Justice W. Akanbi, said the exhibits were conveniently covered by many paragraphs of the petitioner’s statement on oath and reply to respondents’ response to the petitioner’s petition.
“We are of the view it is the duty of the petitioner to tender evidence in open court. The court cannot sit in the confines of its home to sort out exhibits to be identified.
“We hold the view that the exhibits are conveniently covered. They respondents cannot say they were taken by surprise. They were lifted from evidence in court. Objection over ruled,” the court held.
Earlier, a witness, Aniete Ekong, who was subpoena by the tribunal said he would be surprised that there was no result in Unit 9, Ward 11 in Essien Udim Local Government Area, where Akpabio voted in the February 23 presidential and National Assembly elections.
Ekong, told the court that to say Akpabio did not vote during the February 23 election will be “ridiculous.”
He spoke under cross examination, after he was lead to present a video clip in the open court by Ameh which showed Akpabio and wife going through accreditation and voting during the election.
He said he was surprised that INEC is saying there was no election, and that Akpabio didn’t go through accreditation and voting in his polling unit.

Mike Igini, RO Begged Me to Accept Manipulated Result for Obot Akara LGA – Witness Tells Tribunal

The National Assembly Election Petitions, sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, was Monday told how an Electoral Officer for Obot Akara Local Government Area, Prof. Abag Elkana and the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), for the state, Mike Igini, influenced the declaration of the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Chris Ekpenyong as the winner of the February 23 Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District to the disadvantage of the All Progressives Congress’ candidate, Senator Godswill Akpabio.
A former Governor of the state, Akpabio is challenging the declaration of Ekpenyong by INEC as the winner of the declaration of Ekpenyong at the tribunal.
Tiebat Joshua, the petitioner’s witness who said he is a farmer and politician, told the tribunal that immediately after the election of the senatorial district of February 23, as agent of the Akpabio in Obot Akara Local Government Area, Prof Elkana invited him to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s office in Uyo to meet with Igini, where they begged him to accept the result marred with over voting from the local government.
Responding to how he knew the result was manipulated under cross examination by U. U. Njoku, counsel to the first respondent, Ekpenyong, Joshua said that he knew through the Returning officer for the local government, Prof. Abang Elkana, who persuaded him to accept the result figur as declared in favour of the PDP candidate, Senator Ekpenyong, after the election had earlier been cancelled by the Returning Officer due to over voting.
Joshua said:

“My Lords, after the cancellation of Obot-Akara election results due to over voting, I was taken to the office of the REC, Mike Igini, in Uyo by the Electoral Officer of Obot-Akara.

“When we got there, Igini begged me to support the cancellation of the election results from Obot-Akara Local Government to enable the PDP candidate to be declared winner and I said No. But they went ahead to revalidate the results in Igini’s office and Ekpenyong was declared winner in Uyo instead of Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District office of INEC”.

He said the figure on the result sheet was changed from 19,632 to 20,117 in favour of the PDP, saying if the figures from the 11 wards in the local government were calculated, the overrall figure of 20,117 on the INEC result sheet would be wrong.
Joshua said he had protested the result immediately after it was declared at the local government level because of the discrepancies in the result sheet.
He said based on his protestation, he was invited to INEC where both Elkana and Igini begged him to accept the result, which he rejected.
He expressed surprise of the several cancellations on the result sheet presented by INEC in court, adding it was only one cancellation on the result as the time he signed the sheet and he protested before appending his signature.
He accused Prof. Elkana of being a card carrying member of the PDP.

“He is a full PDP member. When he contested for local government chairman on the platform of the PDP sometime ago, I was his agent,”

he alleged.
Meanwhile, Joshua before his testimony, told the tribunal that he got a call from Ekpenyong two days before Monday, warning him not to come to the tribunal to give evidence in favour of the petitioner.

“Two days ago, I received a call from Ekpenyong who is a leader of PDP, he threatened to kill me if I come to testify against him today,”

he told the court.
The Chairman of the three-man panel, Justice W.O Akanbi, ruled him out on the ground that his counsel knows what to do.

“When a witness is threatened, a counsel knows what to do,”

he said.
Also, testifying before the tribunal, Akpabio’s agent for the senatorial district, Ibanga Ime Akpabio, said he was surprised that the election was declared in favour of the PDP and its candidate, Ekpenyong after obvious manipulation by the electoral umpire.

http://thestreetjournal.org/2019/06/mike-igini-ro-begged-me-to-accept-manipulated-result-for-obot-akara-lga-witness-tells-tribunal/

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