A Senior army officer, Captain Garba Sani has told the Rivers State Governorship Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja ‎ that he never saw where election was conducted in Tai Local Government Area where he and his other men were deployed to ma

A Senior army officer, Captain Garba Sani has told the Rivers State Governorship Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja ‎ that he never saw where election was conducted in Tai Local Government Area where he and his other men were deployed to maintain peace and order on April 11, 2015.
The Mohammed Ambrosa-led tribunal overruled the objection by Governor Nyesom Wike, his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, before Sani was allowed to give his oral evidence.
Sani, who said he led thirty seven other soldiers on a patrol of the entire Tai, which is one of the twenty-three local government areas in Rivers State, said he appeared before the tribunal on the directive of army authorities.
The soldier, who is of the Bori Camp, Army Barracks in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, said he received the directive of the army authorities through the Directorate, Legal, of the Nigerian Army.
The soldier, led in evidence by the petitioners’ counsel, Akin Olujinmi, SAN, said his team’s patrol started at about 6pm on April 10 into the night and up till the election day on April 11.