Election Tribunal: Witness Recounts Killing During Poll, Weeps Profusely

One of the witnesses of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the February 23, 2019 election, Arume Mohammed Yahaya, on Wednesday wept profusely in the open Court while recalling the sporadic shootings in some parts of Kogi State that led to the death of an innocent soul.
Yahaya while testifying at the presidential election petition Tribunal, for Atiku and PDP revealed how some political thugs armed with dangerous weapons disrupted the election with gun shots that led voters to flee polling unit.
He said that two of the voters hit by bullets were rushed to a nearby hospital adding that one of them died shortly after he was admitted.
Yahaya under cross examination by Buhari’s counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN, said political thugs invaded his polling unit in Abocho in Selina Local Government Area of Kogi State and fired gun shots sporadically to scare away voters.
The witness further said that in the confusion that followed, voters deserted the polling unit and ran into different directions for safety, adding that at the end of the day, election could not be conducted but votes were allocated to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
At this stage, Yahaya said; “I am emotional because someone died from gun shots”. He then paused for a while and started weeping profusely.
It took the intervention of the Chairman of the Tribunal, who encouraged him to be strong and conclude his testimony.
Yahaya, also said that before 2019, he was an APC member, adding however that his pain was that someone died in the election and not because PDP didn’t win.
Another witness Adamu Samuel Sule, also from Kogi State said that INEC officials did not give PDP agents election result on the instruction of some unnamed APC stalwarts.
Further hearing in the petition has been adjourned till Friday July 19, 2019.