Mr Akuki Keneth, the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) assigned to monitor the April 11 governorship poll in Rivers said on Friday that the election in the state was peaceful.

Keneth, who is also the area commander in nine local government councils of the state, testified before the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal for Rivers sitting in Abuja.

The ACP who was subpoenaed by the tribunal to testify said there was no disruption of voting in the nine local government area that he supervised.

He said the councils under his supervision on the election’s day were, Khana, Gokana, Okirika, Ogu/Bolo, Eleme, Bonny, Opobo /Nkoro, Andoni and Tai, from the report he got from the officers he dispatched to various area under his jurisdiction, the election was peaceful and there was no threat to life.

The witness described as “falsehood’’ an earlier testimony of one DSP Yusuf Buba, before the tribunal.

He alleged that Buba of the Mobile Police Force who had earlier testified for the All Progressive Congress (APC) lied on oath.

Kenneth said that Buba was only deployed to the INEC office in Bori to provide security.

He contended that under the police disciplinary procedure, the witness ought to be sanctioned for his claim that he left his duty post to monitor the election in other areas. He insisted that there was no electoral violence in the areas he covered.