ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Ndubuisi Nwobu, a witness of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the 25 February presidential elections, has revealed how his candidate was rigged out in Anambra State by Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party Presidential candidate.
Nwobu is Atiku’s eleventh witness to testify before the five-member panel headed by Haruna Tsammani.
He told the presidential election tribunal on Wednesday that, “magic happened to the votes of the PDP candidate at different collation centres.”
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In the results announced by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Obi scored 584, 621 votes in Anambra; Atiku polled 9,036 votes in the state and Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress scored 5, 111 votes.
During proceedings, Nwobu who is Anambra PDP chairman and also the state collation agent of the party told the court that after the counting of votes, presiding officers refused to upload the results.
Also, he said he visited about 30 polling units out of the 4,720 polling units in the state on election day.
Nwobu said he was forced to sign the result sheet of the election at the state collation centre because he wouldn’t have been given a copy if he didn’t.
“I signed the result sheet when it was obvious that without signing, a copy would not be made available to me.
“Results were entered at polling units. But, every effort made to get the presiding officer to upload it on IREV proved abortive,” Nwobu said.
When asked if result sheets were signed by agents of the PDP at polling units before there were taken to the collation centre, Nwobu said “yes”.
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“They were taken to the collation centre at the ward level. That is where magic started happening.
“There were problems at the polling units with presiding officers,” he added.
Speaking further, Nwobu said in some instances, he had to intervene to prevent voters and other party agents from attacking INEC officials.
“Even in certain instances, I had to intervene to ensure that some of the polling officers were not attacked by voters and other political party agents,” he said.