OUTCOME OF YESTERDAY'S 20TH AUGUST TRIBUNAL

CROSS EXAMINATION OF
CHIEF AHAMDI EMMANUEL
NWEKE OF APGA AND OTHER
MATTERS ARISING!


CROSS EXAM BY THE 1st RESPONDENT LAWYER.

Q. Did you sign your written
statement on oath dated
15/05/2015?


Ans. My lord, I did.


Q. Did you read the content
of your statement before you signed it?


Ans. Yes I did.


Q. Did you understand the
full meaning and
implications of all the
contents of your written statement on oath?


Ans. Yes because I supplied
the information.


Q. Do you still stand by all
the contents of your
statement as amended yesterday?


Ans. Yes, I stand on it.


Q. You stand by your
introductory statement in
yr deposition on oath?


Ans. Yes I stand on it.

Q. WHEN WERE YOU CALLED
TO BAR IN NIGERIA?


Ans. My lord, I am a
Barrister of Inner Temple in
England, a former Justice For
the Inner London Commision, a Member of the
Inner London Family Court
and an Appeal Panel member
of the Inner London Crown
Court hearing appeals from
the decisions of Magistrates.
I have a 1st Degree in
Business administration,
Diploma in Management
Studies, Masters degree in
Development Studies.


NOTE: I have read a lot of updates from my APGA
friends on how this witness
mesmerized all the Counsel
to the Respondents today.
Now, how can someone
with the aforementioned pedigree fail to understand a
simple question put across to
him?
What is the nexus
between the answers
supplied here and the
question itself? The English Lawyer went off the track
by supplying answers that
have no bearing with the
question.


However, the 1st
Respondent Counsel repeated the question.


Q. When were you called to
Bar in Nigeria?


Ans. I was called to Bar in
England, not in Nigeria.


Q. Do you understand the meaning of a Legal
Practitioner in Nigeria?


Ans. I do not believe it has a
different meaning in Nigeria.


Q. Are you aware that legal
practice is regulated by law in Nigeria?


Ans. Yes I know.


Q. Have you ever read the
Legal Practitioners Act in
Nigeria?


Ans. I do not have any reason to read it because I
was not called to Bar in
Nigeria.


Q. Do you know it is criminal
to hold yourself out as a
Legal Practitioner in Nigeria when you are not
?


Ans. But I have not said so.


Q. Do you know that a Legal
practitioner in Nigeria means
a person who is called to Bar
to practice as a Barrister and a solicitor and whose name
is entered in the roll of Legal
Practitioners in Nigeria?


Ans. My lord, it may well be
so.


Q. Were you called as a Barrister or Solicitor in UK?


Ans. I was called as a
Barrister of the Inner
Temple.


Q. Do you still stand by your
introductory paragraph?

Ans. Most certainly.


Q. You said you were the
State Collation Agent?


Ans. That is correct.


Q. How many polling Units
are in Abia?

Ans. Not the exact number
but about 3000.


Q. Your party had polling
unit Agents in all the Polling
Units across the State?


Ans. Yes, we had.

Q. Did you visit all the polling
Units on the day of the 1st
and 2nd ejections?


Ans. The answer is certainly
not.


Q. Did you receive information from all the
Polling Unit Agents across
the State?


Ans. Not all the polling Units.


Q. From those you received,
was it in writing or oral?

Ans. A combination of both.


Q. Did you reflect the
information you received
from the polling units
Agents in your written
deposition?

Ans. Not all my Lord.


Q. Will you rate the amount
reflected in your deposition
as substantial or minimal?


Ans. My Lord, we are
talking about 3000 Units.
I need to have collected all the
responses, in order to know
how to get it known at %.


Q. You complained of
malpractices in Osisioma,
Aba North and South and Ugwunagbo, tell the Court
the distance between these
LGs and Umuahia.


Ans. Obingwa shares
boundary with Osisoma, then
Osisioma with Ugwunagbo. Depending on where you are
approaching from Umuahia
North, the 3 LGs can be
linked to Umuahia North
within 15-20 minutes.


Q. From Ugwunagbo, Umuahia North is not less
than I hr drive. Is it correct ?


Ans. It is within 15minutes.


Q. Did any voter vote for the
Petitioner in Osisioma,
Ugwunagbo, Aba North and Aba South?


Ans. I could say for Aba
North and South because
elections held there.


Q. Did voting take place in
Osisioma on the day of election of 25th April?


Ans. Yes my lord.


Q. You know Prince Uzo
Uwachukwu?


Ans. Yes! He is the APGA LG
Agent for Osisioma.

Q. You know the procedure
for the conduct of that
election?


Ans. Yes!


Q. In your LG, did the RO At
State compare the results brought by Party Agents to
that of INEC Officers before
announcement?


Ans. Both the RO and REC
were duly informed that the
Electoral Officers ran away with the results.


Q. Did the Petitioners
participate during the
supplementary election?


Ans. Partial participation.


please, bear with me. I will continue from the
cross of 2nd and 3rd
Respondents today .
Meanwhile our APPEAL @
Owerri comes up today too.


The 1st Respondent opened his case yesterday. I will post
the legal debate that forced
the Petitioners to close their
case yesterday.
But they have a
motion for Extension of
time that will be heard next week.

But the ruling of that
Motion is highly predictable.


Matter was equally
adjourned to today
21/08/2015.