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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