Wike begins defence at Rivers election petitions tribunal


Monarch, civil servants insist election was free, credible
ABUJA—Governor Nyesom Wike, Wednesday, began the defence of his mandate, before the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Abuja.
The governor, whose election is being challenged by the All  Progressives Congress, APC, and its governorship candidate in the state, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, opened his defence before the tribunal, by producing seven witnesses that testified on his behalf.
Among those that mounted the witness box, and testified that the governorship election actually held in Rivers State on April 11, 2015, included the traditional ruler of Dagbo village in Khana Local Government Area of the state, Chief Adamgbo Sampson.
The 53 years old king, who was led into evidence by Wike’s lawyer, Mr. Okey Wali, SAN, told the Justice Suleiman Ambursa-led panel that he participated at the election which he said was violence free.
To prove that he was an elector at the election, the witness tendered his Permanent Voters Card, PVC, as an exhibit before the tribunal.
Justice Ambursa admitted the PVC into evidence and marked it as exhibit BW-4.
While being cross-examined by counsel to the petitioners, Chief Akinolu Olujimi, SAN, the traditional ruler told the tribunal that the Card Reader Machine that was deployed in his community by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the purpose of the election, failed.






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