Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/rivers-tribunal-nigerian-army-lied-says-inec/

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday in Abuja informed the Justice Ambrosa Suleiman-led Rivers State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal that the Nigerian Army lied when it submitted that there was no election in Rivers State.
Some top officials of the army had, in their separate testimonies before the tribunal, insisted that the governorship poll in Rivers State was marred by widespread violence and irregularities.
But INEC told the tribunal that the army, in its efforts to discredit the outcome of the April 11 governorship poll in Rivers State, sent soldiers that gave false evidence before the panel.
At the resumed hearing on the petition by the All Progressives Congress and its governorship candidate, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, INEC produced eight witnesses that contradicted the evidence by the Nigerian Army.
The witnesses, who were all presiding officers who conducted the election, informed the tribunal that the governorship election was peaceful and devoid of any form of violence.
While tendering result sheets from the various local government areas as evidence, the witnesses told the tribunal that they resorted to the use of manual accreditation of voters following the failure of card reader machines.
The witnesses also tendered the incidence forms that were filled by voters when the electronic devices could not recognise their voter cards.
According to them, they personally submitted the result sheets at the collation centre.
The PW 12, Onyije Ifeanyi, who is a former member of the National Youth Service Corps, told the tribunal that he was the presiding officer that was in charge of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGA.
He said, “My Lords, I took the result to the collation centre myself where I had to wait for my turn because there were other presiding officers that also came to submit their own. It is not true that there was violence at the area I covered. There was no incident of invasion by armed men or shootings. The election was peacefully conducted and everything went successfully.”
According to him, a total of 114 voters were accredited with the card reader machines, adding that his unit recorded 39 cases of unsuccessful accreditations.
In his testimony, the PW 13, Tubonini Mcbala, who was the presiding officer at Unit 8, ward 1 at Degema LGA, insisted that the election was peaceful.
He told the tribunal that the election was monitored by agents of the APC.
While being cross-examined by the counsel for the petitioners, Chief Akinolu Olujimi (SAN), the witness said, “My Lords, there was no incident of shooting or thugs carting away election materials. Any soldier that comes before this tribunal to testify that there was violence is telling lies.
“As the presiding officer, I was there from the beginning of the election to the end. There was no soldier at the polling unit the only security agents we saw were the police and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and they were all without arms.”
Sequel to an application by the APC and Peterside, the tribunal subpoenaed the Chief of Army Staff to produce some of the soldiers that were deployed to the state during the election to appear and testify before it.
The soldiers, in their separate testimonies, told the tribunal that the election was marred by irregularities such as violence and gunshots by thugs, a situation they said scared voters away.
The four Army Captains who testified included Garba Sani, who was in charge of Tai Local Government Area; Abubakar Mohammed from Bony Camp Lagos, Fred Bala from Maiduguri and Isa Almakura.
They had told the tribunal that they led different troops that were deployed to Rivers State during the election.
They took turns to testify that armed thugs attacked INEC officials at different local government areas in the state and carted away election materials, adding that no election took place at Tai LGA.
Specifically, Almakura, who covered Ikwerri LGA, along with 30 other soldiers, told the tribunal that at a time, his team got confused by the “bombardment of phone calls” from INEC ad hoc staff who he said were shouting for help and begging to be rescued from thugs that invaded their polling units.
On our arrival at polling units in Osuala, Onuerelu, Omerelu and Alu, we found the INEC ad hoc staff, mainly corps members, mercilessly beaten by the thugs,” he added.
Further hearing of the petition continues today (Tuesday).

The Truth shall be known in due time..............

Inec/tribunal/amaechi/dakuku/etc

Please leave rivers,...let's see wike work.

Please add APC to the lying list

Truth will soon come out

River is PDP and will remain PDP.... We love Wike, he remains the best option, and he has proved himself worthy of the mandate, so APC forget about Rivers state.

Military has become tools in the hands of the politicians.

While tendering result sheets from the various local government areas as evidence, the witnesses told the tribunal that they resorted to the use of manual accreditation of voters following the failure of card reader machines.
The witnesses also tendered the incidence forms that were filled by voters when the electronic devices could not recognise their voter cards.

God bless INEC and Wike! The truth shall never be hidden.

The four Army Captains who testified included Garba Sani, who was in charge of Tai Local Government Area; Abubakar Mohammed from Bony Camp Lagos, Fred Bala from Maiduguri and Isa Almakura

All 4 'army' Witnesses are APC and Buhari sympathisers from the North.

APC lying rodents, please get this into your water logged skull. Rivers was never and will never be an APC state even when Amaechi was governor.

APC and Lies are like Siamese twins, wherever you find one the other must be tagging along. They corrupted the media, used Ayo Salami to corrupt the elections tribunals in the 2011 election tribunals and now it's the DSS & Nigerian Army they want to use to scuttle the electoral wishes of the good people of Rivers state. God will not permit them

Army and DSS that APC rejected during election can now be part of election tribunal, wonders shall never end....Rivers ppl will always see ROTIMI Amaechi as an OUTCAST and a back stabber

Naso na, we know who they are, lying liars who will keep lying even in their graves

I don't know why this case no wan end, is it that apc can't do without rivers, its obvious they lost. the way the apc is using the army in this case, makes me wonder if buhari is in total control if his govt. am sure he won't allow it cause they accused pdp if politicising the dss and army, now they are doing the same thing .. hypocrites .

bursted

Apc is after dominating the country to their party, after self interest.

Apc is not after good governance. No party is corrupt, its the party members that are corrupt.

Pdp was a corrupt party but Wike is not.

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abduljabbar4
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koboko69
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I'm watching

Okay ooo

Bugatie:
Please add APC to the lying list

Ably represented by Alhaji. Lie.

shakaZuIlu:
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demdem
omenka
passingshot
ClerverIy
midolian
abduljabbar4
HungerBAD
koboko69
ngenekwinu

INEC is not the judge. Okay?

abduljabbar4:

INEC is not the judge. Okay?

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