March 9 Polls: A’Ibom APC Spits On Results … Claims Victory In 26 LGAs … Calls For Cancellation To Avoid Breakdown of Law


By UbongAbasi Ise

The Akwa Ibom State Chapter of  All Progressives Congress, APC, has rejected the results of Saturday’s gubernatorial and the state house of assembly elections, accusing the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of conniving with the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, to present the results that are at variance with the ones counted and announced at the polling units across the state.
The State Chairman of the APC, Mr. Ini Okopido, while briefing the press today, expressed continued lack of confidence in INEC by his party, stressing how the election management body hobnobbed with the PDP, which resulted in the alteration of the outcome of the weekend’s electoral exercise.
“The APC in the state had maintained its lack of confidence in the electoral umpire, INEC, that was manifestly corrupt, unashamedly hobnobbing with the PDP and criminally tied as an appendage of the Akwa Ibom State Government in the election processes. We had told the world that INEC in Akwa Ibom State had no credibility and integrity to deliver free, fair and credible elections to the people of our state. Today our party has been vindicated.

“The Independent National Electoral Commission in the state yesterday, March 10, 2019 committed the most embarrassing electoral fraud ever conceived since the return to democratic rule in Nigeria in 1999 by announcing concocted and spurious results of the governorship and state house of assembly elections. The commission, in collusion with the PDP, committed an electoral coup against the people of Akwa Ibom State by publishing and announcing such results that has no bearing with the results as counted and announced at the various units in the state. INEC, partnering with the PDP simply changed the figures that were clearly at variance with the results counted and announced at the polling units in the state as obtained by our agents at the units,” he said.
Ini Okopido further maintained that the results as brought forward by APC agents across the state, show his party won in 26 out of the 31 local government areas in the state while rejecting the results as released by INEC in the state, calling on the INEC to cancel the election results immediately to avoid any breakdown of law and order.
“The result of the governorship and state house of assembly elections in the state, as obtained from our agents across the state, clearly shows that the All Progressives Congress won in 26 out of the 31 local government areas of the state. The result showed a remarkable closeness in the number of votes polled by each of the two major political parties. That closeness was even possible because of the amount of underhand tactics of the PDP, multiple voting, vote buying, deployment of violence of unprecedented dimension, arson and killings and in most areas snatching of ballot boxes, and manifest manipulation and non-use of the card reader machines to achieve their pre-determined result. Despite all these, Akwa Ibom people still went ahead to reject the PDP and voted massively for the APC, thus the overwhelming victory they gave to the APC.
“Therefore, our party rejects the sham and fictitious result as announced by INEC in Akwa Ibom State, as it was contrived, manipulated and concocted to suit the unholy alliances between the commission and the PDP. We rather insist on the result of the elections from the field, which gave our party an overwhelming victory in 26 local government areas.
“The All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom State hereby vehemently rejects the purported results as released by INEC in the state. We call on INEC to recourse to the part of honour to cancel the election results forthwith to avoid any breakdown of law and order.

©The Sensor Newspaper


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