Akpabio Vs Ekpenyong: Bring Your Witness, Stop Playing Pranks - APC Supporters Tackle INEC … As INEC Evidence Contradicts Election Official Testimony

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By UbongAbasi Ise

There was a tense session at the national assembly election tribunal sitting in Uyo yesterday after Barr. Ifeoluwa Ojedirun, counsel to the 3rd to 5th respondents (Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and two ors), brought to the notice of the tribunal some photographs of witnesses taken at the dock and made to trend on the social media. 
INEC counsel stressed that because of the pictures of witnesses allowed to go public from the court, his subpoenaed witnesses are declining to come out to testify for fear that their photographs could be taken and throw them into the risk of insecurity, while accusing Mr. Anietie Ekong, the media aide to Senator Godswill Akpabio as being responsible for the leaked pictures.
Mr. Ekong had to distance himself from the allegation, which was seen in some quarters as a ploy calculated by INEC to harass the petitioner, Senator Godswill Akpabio.
The Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice W.O. Akanbi, had to order the court to rise for some minutes, in order to stem down the incensed atmosphere that ensued. 
While the court was on a break, the opinion from the circle of the All Progressives Congress, APC, alleged that INEC has run out of witnesses, and it is hiding under the pretext of leaked photographs to stall the hearing, our correspondent gathered.
When the sitting resumed, Mr. Ndueso Udoaka, who was serving INEC as the supervisory Presiding officer, SPO, in the February 23 election at Odoro Ikot II Ward, alleged how he was abducted with election materials along with 64 other electoral officials by thugs led by Mr. Emmanuel Akpan, member who represented Ikot Ekpene Federal constituency at the time. 
But  the witness stunned the court when he said that one bus conveyed him to unknown location and went back to pick other officials after he earlier said that everybody at the registration area center, RAC, ran helter-skelter following gunshots.
He admitted he was not invited by INEC to make report of the incident to the police while claiming that elections did not hold at all the 10 polling units of Odoro Ikot II because of abduction of INEC officials and hijacking of election materials by thugs.
But S.I. Ameh showed Mr. Ndueso Udoaka 10 polling units results marked as Exhibit P479 to P488 which carry INEC’s stamp and signature of INEC ward collation officer to show that they got the nod of his employer.
On Exbiti P406 showed to the witness, he conceded that there was no information by INEC which indicated that elections were cancelled in any of the polling units in Odoro Ikot II.

©The Sensor Newspaper



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