As the pre-trial siting of the Ebonyi state election Petition tribunal comes to an end Friday, counsel to the member representing Ikwo/Ezza Federal constituency Barr. Arthur Obi Okafor has accused the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of tampering with the INEC election result sheet issued to him for inspection by the tribunal.
The allegation was made Friday by the representative of the counsel to the first respondent Barrister Agbom Friday Agbom.
The petitioner Comrade Chinedu Ogah and Hon. Lazarus Ogbe contested to represent Ezza south/Ikwo Federal constituency at the Green chambers, during the general elections on 23rd February 2019.
Agbom said:” Today is for retrial of section of the court, to harmonies all the pleadings and to determine issues for the court.
And to know the areas in contentions and what is really the contention.
“You can see that the parties agreed that there is a fortification of result that the INEC result is being falsified by the petitioner for the purpose of this tribunal.
“The petitioner applied to court to grant him the privilege to inspect INEC documents and possibly to get the result forms for satisfaction which INEC complied to. But at the processes of photocopying their was a compromise a total falsification of the original result and when we looked at the duplicate issued at the pulling units it’s totally different from what is being paraded by the petitioner.
“INEC having noticed that wrote to the petitioner to return the falsified result, so both INEC, first and the second respondents are now relying on the duplicate .
“INEC is now supineing security agents to bring the duplicate result in their possession to compare to what the respondents have.
