The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) prosecution witness, Barr. Ayiwulu Baba Ayiwulu has admitted that his party inflated the results of the March 18 governorship election in Nasarawa state.
The prosecution witness made the confirmation when he appeared to give testimony before the governorship election petitions tribunal sitting in Lafia, Thursday.
Barr. Baba Ayiwulu, who told the tribunal that he served as the state collation agent of the PDP during the March 18 governorship election, admitting that his party inflated the figures of the election results and depleted that of the APC.
While answering questions during cross examination by the respondents’ counsel, Adebayo Adelodu, SAN for Governor Abdullahi Sule, Ishaka Muddie Dikko, SAN, for INEC and Mathew Burkah, SAN, for APC, the last PDP witness Ayiwulu, affirmed that his party, PDP inflated the results in Ashige, Ciroma and Gayam electoral wards all in Lafia LGA, as well as Abuni and Azara wards in Awe local government area.
He revealed that APC scored 293 in Polling Unit 022, but depleted the figure to 45 while PDP got 73 but he recorded 144, just as APC polled 169 but he recorded 167. He also recorded 67 instead of 61 for PDP in form EC8 across Gayam, Ciroma, Kanje/Abuni, Azara and Ashige electoral wards attributing the anomaly to human error.
Earlier, the prosecution lead counsel Jibrin Samuel Okutepa, SAN tendered two more documents, which were produced by the state INEC Chief Engineer ICT Department, Godwin Udong Idioh but the respondents’ counsel all objected to the admissibility of the documents.
Okutepa thereafter applied to close their case, an application that was granted by the chairman of the tribunal, Justice Ezekiel Ajayi.
Consequently, chairman of the tribunal, Justice Ezekiel Ajayi adjourned hearing till this Friday for the respondents to open their defence.
