THE All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate
in the March 28, 2015 senatorial election for Anambra
Central, Chief Victor Umeh, yesterday shocked the
Justice Nayai Aganaba-led first National Assembly
Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Awka when he
tendered a truck-load of documents to prosecute his
petition.
Umeh, is contesting declaration of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Senator Uche
Ekwunife, as the winner.
The materials he tendered include polling unit results
(Forms EC8A1), ward to ward election result (Forms
EC8B1), constituency collated results (Forms EC8D1),
and declared result sheets (Forms EC8E1).
Others were PDP Electoral Guidelines for Primary
Election of 2014, a letter dated November 4 which was
received on November 5 addressed to Chief Umeh as
winner of the party’s primary election.
It took Umeh’s counsel, Chief Patrick Ikwueto (SAN)
about three hours to tender the documents.
Umeh and APGA had sued Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC), the state’s Resident
Electoral Commissioner (REC), Collation Officers in all
the seven local governments in the senatorial district,
Senator Ekwunife and PDP.
Speaking to newsmen at the tribunal’s premises,
Umeh said he tendered all the documents with which
INEC conducted the election which had earlier been
admitted as exhibits by the tribunal.
Umeh claimed that INEC had earlier admitted that the
figure with which it declared Ekwunife winner was
false and also admitted that figures assigned to him
were false.
Source: the sun newspaper.
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