New Development at Election Tribunal Threatens Gov Wike's Position...See Shocking Details

Captain Garba Sani has told the Rivers State Governorship Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja that he never saw where election was conducted in Tai Local Government Area.

Nyesom Wike

 

Governor Nyesom Wike's position as the executive governor of Rivers state is being threatened by the developments of the Rivers State Governorship Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Wednesday‎, 9th of September as an army officer, Captain Garba Sani shockingly revealed no election was held in Tai Local Government.

 

Sani who made the revelation said that he and his men were deployed to maintain peace and order on April 11, 2015, the day the poll was scheduled to hold.

 

It should be recalled that Governor Nyesom Wike is being petitioned in the tribunal by the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Peterside Dakuku.

 

Sani was almost denied an opportunity to testify by the advocates of Governor Nyesom Wike and the Independent National Electoral Commission before Mohammed Ambrosa-led tribunal overruled the objection and gave him a chance to share his testimony as an oral evidence.

Sani, a subpoenaed witness, who said he led 37 other soldiers on a patrol of the entire Tai, which is one of the 23 local government areas in Rivers State, said he appeared before the tribunal on the directive of army authorities.

‎The soldier, who is of the Bori Camp, Army Barracks in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, said he received the directive of the army authorities through the Directorate, Legal, of the Nigerian Army, after his unit received “a signal” about the subpoena served on the Chief of Army Staff, Maj.-Gen. Tukur Buratai. ‎

 

The subpoena served on the Chief of Army Staff was obtained upon a request by the petitioners – the All Progressives Congress and its candidate in the April 11 poll, Dr. Dakuku Peterside – who are challenging the declaration of Governor Wike as the winner of the election.

The soldier, led in evidence by the petitioners’ counsel, Chief Akin Olujinmi (SAN), said his team’s patrol started at about 6pm on April 10 into the night and up till the election day on April 11.