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.
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