it dealt with the alleged malpractices and offences therein on the part of the appellants only in very general terms without giving the necessary particulars as correctly observed by the learned trial judge in the passages quoted above from her judgment. Granted, the affidavits of the other witnesses of the respondent are in support of her petition as argued by counsel for the respondent. The law however, in Rule 4.8 of S.I 141-2 specifically requires that the petition shall be accompanied by an affidavit setting out the facts on which the petition is based together with a list of any documents on which the petitioner intends to rely. Agreeably, and as pointed out by learned counsel for the respondent, and correctly so, in my view, the law does not restrict the petitioner to filing only one affidavit. A petitioner may file one or more such affidavits. Such affidavit or affidavits however, must, accompany the petition and set out the facts on which the petition is based. Lists of documents to be relied upon by the petitioner must also be given in the affidavit or affidavits accompanying the petition. These facts, in our considered view, are what are otherwise elsewhere in law referred to in terms of pleadings as particulars. It is a cardinal rule of statutory interpretation that where the words of a statutory provision are clear and un ambigious, they should be given their ordinary meaning. The Parliamentary Elections Act and the rules made thereunder do not define the word accompany. According to Black’s Law Dictionary, however, the word accompany means ‘to go along with’. It is our firm view that those affidavits in support of the petitioner’s petition which were deponed to by her other witnesses, five months after the filing and presentation of the petition to court did not accompany the petition in terms of the meaning of rule 4.8 of S.I 141-2. They were, in our view additional evidence by the other witnesses of the petitioner. The petitioners’ additional affidavit in support, which too was filed into court in August 2006, five months after the filing and presentation of the petition, was additional evidence from the respondent. These could only substantiate matters that would have been properly pleaded in the petition and the affidavits that went along with it when it was first presented to court. I am mindful of the fact that the respondent stated in paragraph 9 of the affidavit in support of the petition which accompanied it when it was presented to court, that there