An army officer, Captain Garba Sani, told the Rivers State Governorship Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Wednesday‎ that he never saw where election was conducted in Tai Local Government Area where he and his other men were deployed to maintain peace and order on April 11, 2015, the day the poll was scheduled to hold.

The Mohammed Ambrosa-led tribunal overruled the objection by Governor Nyesom Wike, his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, before Sani was allowed to give his oral evidence on Wednesday.

Sani, a subpoenaed witness, who said he led 37 other soldiers on a patrol of the entire Tai, which is one of the 23 local government areas in Rivers State, said he appeared before the tribunal on the directive of army authorities.


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‎The soldier, who is of the Bori Camp, Army Barracks in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, said he received the directive of the army authorities through the Directorate, Legal, of the Nigerian Army, after his unit received “a signal” about the subpoena served on the Chief of Army Staff, Maj.-Gen. Tukur Buratai.
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The subpoena served on the Chief of Army Staff was obtained upon a request by the petitioners – the All Progressives Congress and its candidate in the April 11 poll, Dr. Dakuku Peterside – who are challenging the declaration of Governor Wike as the winner of the election.

The soldier, led in evidence by the petitioners’ counsel, Chief Akin Olujinmi (SAN), said his team’s patrol started at about 6pm on April 10 into the night and up till the election date.

the sleeping one-legged governor

Its no longer news. Its just a matter of days

So That's sacked

This is not good. Army officers shouldn't be appearing before election tribunals.

zicoraads:
This is not good. Army officers shouldn't be appearing before election tribunals.

An army officer, a northerner. What do you expect from those bokoharamists?

I bet the op is high on weed.anybody that will want wike to be removed holy ghoooost fiiirrrreeee.come and see magic this guy performed in ph within 100days,even APC don give for wike

if this is true it violates the neutral status the Army/Milllitary is supposed to uphold at all times and that witness account may be ruled out.

zicoraads:
This is not good. Army officers shouldn't be appearing before election tribunals.

The very reason the military should never be used as security for elections.
But did the PDP government ever listen? No.

So who do you now expect to come give evidence on what transpired on election day if not the military that was on ground?

The need for the military providing security for elections is only suggestive of a state in chaos - a failure of the government.

*grins* hausa fulani apc soldier? i laugh in daura. dau! dau! dau!

donc26:
Its no longer news. Its just a matter of days

what are you dreaming of?

OperationIgrigi:
*grins* hausa fulani apc soldier? i laugh in daura. dau! dau! dau!

? i laugh in daura. dau! dau! dau!

That army officer must be high on weed. I am from Tai (sime community) and we voted at the sime community town hall. Multitudes turned out to vote and everything was free and fair. barry mpigi should accept defeat and support Jacobson to move the constituency forward.

northner soldiers always conspired with APC.

See how APC have turned wailers because of wike, lolzzzz, news without sauce

IN OTHER NEWS, WIKE DECLARED HIS ASSETS

Tribunal will not accept that trash from a drunk army man.

Until they start respecting human rights, Nigeria military men are worth nothing..

NA IS still playing LUDO

K

Thought the opposition APC just before the 2015 elections cried that the military was apolitical and partisan. Now they are even doing worse. Who says #change has come?

medicine after death

Fool!!! His Word against d words of other PDP witnesses who will testify dat election held. Oral evidence is almost nothing. wat concrete proof does he have? dat's d case. stop deluding ur self and get a job. heard Lagos state is employing teachers. perhaps u can apply.

PRYCE:
So That's sacked

Will you blame him?

If they like let them conduct re-election 10 times Wike will beat them AGAIN!

It's nothing we should panic about. Rivers State is Like Akwa Ibom State. Pure PDP.........