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Ogun Election : PDP Fails To Call More Witnesses, May Close Case Earlier, Tribunal Adjourns Sitting

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July 25, 2023
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Abeokuta – The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal Sitting in Abeokuta, on Tuesday adjourned proceedings earlier than expected, following the inability of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to call more witnesses as scheduled.

At the resumed hearing of the tribunal if the tribunal on Tuesday, Counsel to PDP, Chief Chris Uche SAN, was only able to call one witness – Ayinde Ridwan Olamilekan from Abeokuta.

His hope to cal two more witnesses from Odogbolu hit the rocks when none of them showed up.

The Senior Lawyer then informed the tribunal that the vehicle conveying the two further witnesses to the venue of the tribunal broke down on the road and therefore made it impossible for them to attend the proceedings.

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He then the prayed court for an adjournment till tomorrow, July 26, 2023, which was granted accordingly.

Also, considering the abysmal response of scheduled witnesses, the PDP, through it’s counsel has changed the date slated to close it’s case to Thursday, against Friday earlier planned.

In the meantime, Chief Uche , SAN , informed the tribunal that he had earlier on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 filed the Witness Statement of an Expert Witness – one Chief Reginald Udunze – as well as the Expert Report of the said witness.

He informed the tribunal that as was the practice, he would like to give the lawyers for APC and Governor Abiodun time to peruse those documents since they had just been served.

Meanwhile, during the short proceedings, the sole witness who appeared before the panel to testify in favour of PDP, Ayinde Ridwan Olamilekan, from Abeokuta South, was crossed examined by the counsel to Governor Dapo Abiodun, Bode Olanipekun SAN.

Under cross-examination, Ridwan declared that he could not remember the date he signed the statement he submitted to the tribunal; that is even as similarities were detected in his statement after being compared with others from different polling units.

Ridwan, had claimed to simply being a voter and not a member or supporter of PDP.

However, under cross-examination, he revealed that when the events of the Election Day occurred, he decided to report his side of the events to the PDP Ward Chairman and PDP lawyer.

On why he decided to report his grievances during the exercise to PDP lawyer when he is not a member of the political party and even wrote the statement he tendered before the panel at PDP secretariat, the witness could not give any answer to the question as he kept pretending not to understand questions by asking the lawyers cross-examining him to “come again”.

This pretence became so often that the Tribunal had to call on PDP’s counsel Chief Uche SAN, to instruct Ridwan appropriately.

It was only after Chief Uche instructed Ridwan that Ridwan he began to answer questions directly, most of which showed that he was a massive sympathiser of the PDP who was even called on telephone by the PDP Ward Chairman on Election Day.

The tribunal continues its sitting tomorrow, July 26 , 2023 at the same venue. (vitalnewsngr.com)

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