Presidential poll: Nasarawa results sheet was altered, PDP collation officer tells court

Ibrahim Hamza, a witness of Atiku Abubakar, has told the presidential election tribunal that the result sheet for the poll in Nasarawa was altered after he had signed the document. 

Hamza was the collation officer for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the February 25 presidential election in Nasarawa.

According to NAN, Hamza told the tribunal on Monday that he had also appended his signature to the results sheet under duress because “if I did not sign, I would not be given the result”.

“I did not state this in my witness statement of oath because I know a day like this would come,” the witness told the court.

“The results were altered after I appended my name and signed.

“Due process was not followed…I had to sign to obtain a copy of the results because there was this intimidation that if I did not sign, I would not be given the result.”

Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) won Nasarawa state during the presidential election.

Obi got 191,361 votes over PDP, who finished second with 147,093 votes, and APC’s 172,922 in third.

TheCable had reported that Abiye Sekibo, another witness of Atiku, told the tribunal that “agents of the All Progressives Congress” attacked voters and truncated the electronic transmission of results in Rivers state.

Sekibo claimed that officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were prevented from using the bimodal voter accreditation system (BVAS) to upload results collated from polling units across the state.