APGA Candidate Umeh Presents a Truckload of Documents Before Tribunal in a Bid to Claim His Mandate

 

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate in the March 28, 2015 senatorial election for Anambra Central, Chief Victor Umeh, yesterday shocked the Justice Nayai Aganaba-led first National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Awka when he tendered a truck-load of documents to prosecute his petition.

 

It should be noted that Chief Victor Umeh is contesting the result of the recently concluded general elections which saw his opponent of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Senator Uche Ekwunife, become the winner.

According to Sunnews, the materials he tendered include polling unit results (Forms EC8A1), ward to ward election result (Forms EC8B1), constituency collated results (Forms EC8D1), and declared result sheets (Forms EC8E1).

Others were PDP Electoral Guide­lines for Primary Election of 2014, a letter dated November 4 which was received on November 5 addressed to Chief Umeh as winner of the party’s primary election. The documents were tendered by his counsel, Chief Pat­rick Ikwueto (SAN) for about 3 hours.

It should be recalled that Umeh and APGA had sued Inde­pendent National Electoral Commis­sion (INEC), the state’s Resident Elec­toral Commissioner (REC), Collation Officers in all the seven local govern­ments in the senatorial district, Senator Ekwunife and PDP.

Umeh revealed to newsmen he had tendered all the documents the  Inde­pendent National Electoral Commis­sion (INEC) used in conducting the election to serve as an exhibit for his case. He also revealed INEC had earlier admitted the falsehood of Senator Uche Ekwunife victory.