{"id":119947,"date":"2024-05-29T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T09:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/bayelsa-poll-tribunal-judgement-exposed-sylva-police-commissioner-others-election-fraud-gov-diri"},"modified":"2024-05-29T12:32:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T11:32:31","slug":"bayelsa-poll-tribunal-judgement-exposed-sylva-police-commissioner-others-election-fraud-gov-diri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bayelsa-poll-tribunal-judgement-exposed-sylva-police-commissioner-others-election-fraud-gov-diri","title":{"rendered":"Bayelsa poll: Tribunal judgement exposed Sylva, Police Commissioner, others\u2019 election fraud \u2013 Gov Diri"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has said the state\u2019s governorship election petition tribunal exposed the electoral fraud perpetrated by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the November 11, 2023 poll in the state, Chief Timipre Sylva, the party\u2019s chairman and a serving Commissioner of Police.<\/p>\n

Recall that the tribunal on Monday dismissed the APC and Sylva\u2019s petition challenging the declaration of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of Governor Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as winner of the election for lacking in merit.<\/p>\n

Diri spoke on Tuesday night at the King of Glory Chapel in Government House, Yenagoa, where he stopped for a thanksgiving upon his arrival from Abuja.<\/p>\n

He disclosed that during cross-examination at the tribunal, the APC witnesses shot themselves in the foot with frivolous claims and inconsistent exhibits.<\/p>\n

The governor also narrated how a former Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Tolani Alausa, who was procured as a star witness in the case, tainted his image by tendering false evidence before the court and was humiliated for parading fake INEC documents.<\/p>\n

He noted that although Alausa was no longer the CP in the state, the senior police officer presented himself at the tribunal to defend the fraud perpetrated by the APC candidate.<\/p>\n

He also said the tribunal equally excoriated the party\u2019s chairman in the state, Chief Dennis Otiotio, for his \u201cunprofessional conduct\u201d being a legal practitioner.<\/p>\n

He called on the judiciary to place heavy sanctions on frivolous matters and abuse of court processes by those desperate to subvert the wishes of the people.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cDuring one of the sittings, our lawyers scanned an INEC form that they (APC) presented and it was established that the form was printed in Yenagoa. The counsel to INEC in his own cross-examination of Otiotio and their party\u2019s witnesses said all INEC result sheets had barcodes but that presented as result sheets by the APC had none.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also witnessed how a Commissioner of Police made himself an APC commissioner in the state. This was an officer that had been transferred from the state following an indictment by the IG due to a misdemeanour but he got his way back through the APC candidate\u2019s influence to supervise the election. The same person became the APC star witness in a case he was no longer party to, following his re-deployment out of the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the veracity of our matter, you will know that it was between light and darkness. Technically, they were even knocked out by the tribunal and their case dismissed. But the panel did not only base their judgement on that. Rather the judges addressed their points one by one. So we are waiting for their appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diri described the litigation process by Sylva as a deceptive plot by those who attempted to steal in broad daylight and still crying wolf about a miscarriage of justice by the tribunal.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has said the state\u2019s governorship election petition tribunal exposed the electoral fraud perpetrated by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the November 11, 2023 poll in the state, Chief Timipre Sylva, the party\u2019s chairman and a serving Commissioner of Police. 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