24th Witness: INEC cancelled presidential election results in Kaduna

In the ongoing presidential tribunal, John Makama, who served as the Peoples Democratic Party’s collation agent in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State, during the February 23, 2019 presidential election, has claimed the results of the poll in the stronghold of his party were cancelled by the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The Party agent,who stood as the 24th petitioner’s witness, was testifying before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja, in the case filed by the PDP and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

The petitioners are, by their petition filed before the Justice Mohammed Garba-led tribunal of five judges, challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress at the poll.

Makama claimed in his evidence-in-chief that the election in Saga Local Government Area of Kaduna State was marred by illegal cancellation of votes.

Under cross-examination by the respondents’ counsel, Makama said the results were cancelled in his presence at the local government collation centre by the INEC’s local government collation officer and not at the polling units where the election took place.

‎He said, “It is an aberration that results from wards and polling units were cancelled.

“The election held at the polling units, but the cancellations happened at the local government collation centre.

“The results from the petitioners’ stronghold were illegally cancelled.

“It is an open fact that political parties have stronghold where they are dominant.”

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