BY VINCENT UJUMADU

AWKA — ANAMBRA State governor and the candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in last year’s election in the state, Chief Willie Obiano, yesterday, told the Justice Ishaq Bello- led election petition tribunal that he has only one voter’s card.

He said the card was the one issued to him by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, following his application for transfer of his voting right from Lagos to Anambra State.

Answering questions during cross-examination by the counsel to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. A.O. Ajana and counsel to the party’s candidate, Chief Tony Nwoye, Obiano denied the allegation that he possessed more than one voter’s card.

He said he did not see under-age voters during the election at the time he went for accreditation and voting.

He said: “I arrived the polling unit at about 8.30a.m. and was accredited along with other. I also voted when the voting started, just like others.”

“At the end of the election, votes were counted and results were collated and I was declared the winner. Apart from the voter register issued to me by INEC, I do not have any other voter’s card. The one I was using in Lagos was submitted to INEC I applied for the transfer of my voter card.”

Obiano said he would not subscribe to the insinuation that the governorship election was invalid, just as he stated in another question that he was duly qualified to contest the election.