As the governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital resumed proceedings on Monday, only members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) appeared as witnesses for the party.
It would be recalled that the tribunal provisionally admitted undisputed documents presented by the PDP, on Thursday, as their counsel informed the panel of their readiness to start calling witnesses as scheduled.
Meanwhile, among the PDP members, who were called during cross examination was Ibuowo Ogunbowale, from Sabo, Sagamu, who was accused of disrupting electoral process at his polling unit.
Ogunbowale was cross examined by one of the counsels for the respondents, Mrs Folake Akinlawon, and agreed of being a member of PDP and a former aspirant on the platform of the party, though he denied his involvement in the crisis that rocked his polling unit.
Also, another witnesses, Ibuowo Ogunbowale and Adeleye Ayomide, both from Sagamu and members of PDP, who were cross examined by the Independent National electoral Commission (INEC) and the All Progressives congress (APC) counsels, respectively affirmed that his lawyers gave him the witness paper and not aware of the content, while other shockingly confessed that he didn’t agree with the provision of electoral law which stipulates that voters should quietly vacate poling units after voting.
In another development, Adijat Ayodele, who was also called to testify in favour of PDP, admitted not to have read her witness statement before appending her signature.
In the same vein, Faisal Yusuf, from Ijoko Ifo, who also came to testify in favour of PDP, told the tribunal that he had been a trader for the past 30 years, contrary to his claim that his voter card marked BT 591, read civil servant
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