The Rivers State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday tendered to the Governorship Election Tribunal, comprehensive voters’ register for eight local government areas in the state.
Mr Goddy Uche, counsel to the party, told the tribunal sitting in Abuja, that the register contained the list of voters in the April 11 governorship election in the state.
The counsel also tendered nine additional Accreditation Incident Report forms for different wards in the local governments.
According to Uche, the tendering of the documents is to prove that the party’s candidate, Mr Nyesom Wike, actually won the election in the state.
He said that the documents would help to prove that the All Progressives Congress (APC) merely engaged “in fallacy and propaganda’’ when it presented its case before the tribunal.
Uche also said it was necessary to tender the documents in view of the fact that both manual and card reader accreditations were used during the governorship election.
The counsel noted that the comprehensive voters’ registers tendered by the party indicated that a formal electoral process was observed during election.
According to Uche, the different election materials being tendered by the party is also to discredit all the false allegations contained in the petition filed by the APC and its candidate, Mr Dakuku Peterside.
Addressing newsmen outside the tribunal, Uche said that the APC and its candidate had earlier engaged in mere fallacy.
He said that what PDP was doing now was to counter them with documentary evidence that the election was credible.
“We have asked the tribunal to allow us return on Monday after sorting out all the documents at our disposal.
“ The world can see by virtue of the evidence we have adduced that Governor Wike was duly elected” Uche said.
Meanwhile, counsel to the APC, Mr Akinlolu Olujimi, who had earlier objected to the admissibility of the documents told the tribunal that he would offer his reasons in his final address.
Olujimi told the tribunal that he was not overwhelmed with the volume of documents being provided by the respondents.
“We have seen a lot of issues to be contended with in the documents they provided, by the time we will give our addresses, they will hands off,’’ Olujimi said.
The tribunal Chairman, Justice Suleiman Ambursa, admitted as exhibits, all the documents tendered.
He adjourned sitting to Monday, 12 October.