Tribunal: Igini, PDP Destroying Election Materials – APC Cries To AGF … Demands Immediate Relocation of Tribunal To FCT


By UbongAbasi Ise

As post-election disputes are heading to tribunal, the Akwa Ibom State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has raised alarm over electoral manipulation as it notifies the Attorney General of the Federation on alleged attempt by the State INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Mr. Mike Igini, agents of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, and Akwa Ibom State Government, to destroy electoral materials needed to substantiate the election petitions of the APC candidates.
In a letter issued Thursday and signed by the State APC Chairman, Mr. Ini Okopido, with copies to The Inspector General of Police; Director General, Department of State Security Service; and Director General, National Intelligence Agency, the APC accuses the Akwa Ibom REC of superintending over a grand scheme to create confusion and to thwart the justice.

“We want to place on record and bring to your attention the very obvious and noticeable attempt by the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Mike Igini, in collusion with agents of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Akwa Ibom State Government to perpetuate electoral fraud by destroying electoral materials needed to substantiate the election petitions of candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State.
“We observe with deep regrets that since Mr. Mike Igini superintended over the worst general elections ever conducted in Akwa Ibom State, that was fraught with manifest irregularities and wide spread electoral infractions, the REC is now unveiling a grand scheme to thwart and create a chaotic environment to pave way for the pervasion of justice,” the letter reads.
The Akwa Ibom APC further alleged that Mr. Mike Igini has resorted to intimidating the INEC ad hoc staff that participated in the just concluded elections and coerce them to be fabricating false reports of electoral malpractices and results to the disfavor of the APC candidates.
“ We have been reliably informed that the REC is now intimidating electoral officers who participated in the just concluded general elections in the State, particularly, Collation Officers, Supervisory Presiding Officers (SPOs), Presiding Officers (POs) and Assistant Presiding Officers (APOs), handing over their phone numbers to hired assassins and PDP killer squad to forcefully coerce them to concoct and fabricate false reports of violence, ballot paper snatching, all in a bid to justify the clandestine activities of Mr. Mike Igini days after the purported declaration of results, seeing that unit results will expressly show that candidates of the All Progressives Congress clearly won the elections by the votes directly delivered at the polling units across the state.
“This latest action by the leadership of INEC in Akwa Ibom State has vindicated our stand expressed in various foras before the general elections that Mr. Mike Igini is a biased umpire, heavily compromised by the Akwa Ibom State Government to truncate the smooth conduct of a free and fair elections. We therefore reiterate in unambiguous terms, that INEC under Mr. Mike Igini cannot guarantee credibility and the ethos of fair play as demonstrated with this plot hatched to frustrate the electoral process,” the letter said.
The party called for the immediate relocation of the elections tribunal to the Abuja to forestall breakdown of law and order, including the immediate redeployment of Mr. Mike Igini to pave way for a level-playing field for all parties that participated in the elections.
APC further urged the security agencies to provide adequate security to all ad-hoc staffs of INEC in the state and properly investigate and bring to book, thugs reportedly paid by the PDP to intimidate non-yielding election officials.

©The Sensor Newspaper


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