By Daud Olatunji

ABEOKUTA – The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, yesterday, took possession of over 70,000 electoral documents, including result sheets and voter registers loaded in four Hilux vans from Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The documents, brought to the tribunal by the Deputy Director, Head of Department Electoral Operations of INEC, Samuel Ogunjemilua, was at the instance of the petitioners; Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and its candidate in April 11 governorship election, Gboyega Isiaka.

Ogunjemilua was invited to the tribunal through a writ of subpoena dated August 12, 2015 applied for by the Counsel to the petitioners, Adetunji Oyeyipo (SAN) and granted by the court.

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The Tribunal had subpoenaed INEC to tender the documents used for the governorship election.

The documents included Certified True Copies of Voters Register Record; Result Sheets, Incident Forms and original copies of ballot papers for the nine local governments under contention.

The local governments covered included Abeokuta North, Abeokuta South, Ado-Odo/Ota, Ewekoro, Ifo, Obafemi-Owode, Odeda, Remo-North and Sagamu.

A schedule of document obtained by Vanguard indicated that 1, 626 polling units results and 820 incident forms were brought before the court.
Other documents included 70, 024 sheets of Voter Register Record, 1, 913 results sheets including EC8A and EC8B and 6, 132 incident forms.

Earlier, Counsel to Amosun, Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) had argued that the subpoenaed be sworn on oath like every other witnesses before he could tender the documents before the tribunal.

The petitioners expected to tender the documents at subsequent sittings, while the case was adjouned to today for continuation of trial.