A witness, Ibrahim Hamza, informed the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) yesterday that Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, did not win in Nasarawa State.
Hamza, one of the witnesses in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, case challenging President Bola Tinubu’s victory.
The witness, who served as the PDP’s state collation agent during the election, said that if the poll had been free and fair, Obi would not have won Plateau.
He claimed he signed the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) result sheet under duress.
“I am not happy with the result. I don’t want the court to accept this result. Labour Party cannot come first in Nasarawa State. That is impossible. We have the authentic result. It is with the national collation agent (of the PDP),” he said.
When questioned if the aforementioned national collation agent was still alive, the witness feigned ignorance of his whereabout.
Hamza claimed that the clean copy of the result sheet he signed was afterwards tampered with in favor of Peter Obi.
Hamza, the tenth petitioners’ witness (PW10), said these while being cross-examined by Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), President Tinubu’s lawyer.
He also told the court that the PDP candidate met all of the constitutional prerequisites and procedures for being declared the election winner.
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