Awitness called by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the last presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, Ibrahim Hamza has told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) did not win in Nasarawa State. Hamza, who said he acted as PDP’s State Collation Agent (SCA) during the election, claimed that Obi would not have won his state if the election was free and fair. The witness, who claimed to have signed the result sheet under duress, confirmed that by the scores allocated to parties by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Obi won the state. “I am not happy with the result. I don’t want the court to accept this result. Labour Party cannot come first in Nasarawa State. That is impossible..we have the authentic result. It is with the National Collation Agent (of the PDP),” the witness said. When asked if the said National Collation Agent was still alive, the witness said he did not know. The…
and its candidate in the last presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, Ibrahim Hamza has told the Presidential Election Petition Court that the candidate of the Labour Party did not win in Nasarawa State.
Hamza, who was testifying as the 10th petitioners’ witness said these while being cross-examined by Chief Wole Olanipekun , lawyer to President Bola Tinubu. Another witness, Abraham David , while being cross-examined by lawyer to INEC, Abdullahi Aliyu said although Atiku scored 15percent of the votes in the FCT, he is entitled to be returned as winner, because even Tinubu who did not score 25percent in the FCT was declared the President.
PW 8, Mohammed Madaki, who said it was the law that a candidate who did not score 25percent in the FCT cannot be declared President, noted that since Atiku did not score 25percent in the FCT he was not entitled to be declared President. When asked by Fagbemi to tell the court the meaning of conscientiously, Madaki said: “I can’t remember.”
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