Welcome, Guest: Join ECHOng / Login / Trending / Recent / NewsStats: 47,025 members, 241,189 topics. Date: Monday 29th of April 2024 04:43 AM |
Top Members (April) BigBallsBiden : 688 LilyNLSOFT : 133 uzy47 : 119 noah22 : 52 KellyE : 52 TitanKenneth : 30 EMMALEZ : 28 haykings : 21 bmdworld : 7 IzunnaOkafor : 7 Top members are most active forum members |
ECHOnigeria Forum / Naija Info / Atiku's Witness Weeps At Election Tribunal (1 Post | 370 Views)
(1) (Go Down)
Atiku's Witness Weeps At Election Tribunal by starboy247(: 1:42 pm |
Petitioners’ Witness 57, Mohammed Yahaya, called by the Peoples Democratic Party and its 2019 presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, broke down in tears at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday. Mohammed, who served as the PDP agent for Aboto Ward in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State during the election, shed tears under cross-examination by President Muhammadu Buhari’s lawyer, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), saying lives of people were being toyed with over politics. Earlier, he had claimed that two persons were shot by All Progressives Congress’ thugs who invaded a polling unit in his ward on the day of the election. He said the two victims were rushed to the hospital, but one of them died much later. He said he witnessed violence in the polling units where he voted and the others he visited during the election but could not tell of the situation in the ones he did not visit. “I ran away for my dear life. Where I did not visit, our agents told me they ran away for their dear lives,†he said. The witness, who said he was fondly called “Honourable†by his mother whom he said had pampered him before her death, insisted that Aboto Ward had always been the stronghold of the PDP. He said the PDP would have won in the ward had there been no violence in the ward. The witness said “It was House of Assembly election and they are challenging it in court.†He broke down in tears when Olanipekun repeated the question to extract a more satisfactory answer. “You people are just playing politics with peoples’ lives. People died,†he said. It took about five minutes for the head of the five-man panel, Justice Mohammed Garba, to pacify him. Reacting to the development, Olanipekun said, “We are used to people like him. My question had nothing to do with death.†“Had there been no violence, PDP would have won this election.â€
|
Twin daughters of the Alaafin of Oyo mark their second birthday PREMIERE: Masterkraft – Oja ft. Olamide (New Song) Housemaid Who Uses Rats To Cook Jollof Rice ForHer Madam Confesses |
(1)
(Go Up)
ECHOnigeria - Copyright © 2022. All rights reserved. Follow ECHOng on Facebook and Twitter Inbox Peculiar (Forum Super Mod) If you have any questions (+2348171606466) Disclaimer: Every ECHOnigeria member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on ECHOnigeria |