Edo Poll: PDP witness goofs again, confirms contradictions in Ighodalo’s evidence
The Edo State Governorship Election Petition resumed sitting on Thursday, with a witness that was produced by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, flustering as he confirmed contradictions in the proof of evidence he was brought to testify on.
The witness, Mr. Eseigbe Victor, who told the Justice Wilfred Kpochi-led three-member panel that he is a farmer, added that he served as agent of the PDP at Ward 9 in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of the state.
Testifying as the 13th witness of the petitioners, Victor, said he was the one that received results from agents of the party that were posted to 28 polling units in Ward 9, Akoko-Edo.
While being cross-examined by counsel to Governor Monday Okpebholo, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, the PW-13, insisted that information from the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, machines and hardcopies from the IReV, were presented at the Ward Collation Center for reconciliation of results of the election.
When he was shown one of the Exhibits that was tendered by his party, PDP, the witness, confirmed that though there were 71 accredited voters at Unit 001 of Ward 9, report from the BVAS machine they tendered showed that there were 252 number of accredited voters in the same polling unit.
Likewise, he acknowledged that in Unit 003, while the number of accredited voters in the IReV report they tendered was 116, when he was shown the BVAS report they also tendered for the same Unit, he confirmed that the number of accredited voters on the document was 262.
Similarly, the witness confirmed that in Unit 004, while 107 was recorded in the IReV report, the BVAS report had 243 accredited voters.
More so, the witness confirmed that most of the documents they tendered had no stamp of the INEC.
He however insisted that agents of the party did not sign most of the result sheets owing to alleged wrong computation.
