- The professor was found guilty on two counts of falsification of election results and announcing fake results by an Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Ikot Ekpene
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it is confident that more electoral offenders will be prosecuted following the conviction and sentencing of a university lecturer, Peter Ogban.
Ogban, a professor of soil science at the University of Calabar, was the returning officer in the 2019 Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial district election won by the All Progressive Congress (APC).
The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, described the court’s decision as a huge lesson for compromised individuals working with politicians to subvert the will of the people.
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”It is shameful that individuals who had attained the peak of an enviable career in the academia could submit themselves as willing tools in the hands of a fraudulent, debased, and manipulative political party … to alter election results and subvert the collective will of the people in the 2019 elections.
“Such individuals can now see the deplorable situation of economic depression, excruciating hardship, terrorism, killings, kidnapping, social and infrastructural decay, which their fraudulent and unpatriotic action has plunged our nation,” it said.
The main opposition party continued: “If these unpatriotic elements had not manipulated our electoral process in favour of APC and allowed the will of the people to prevail, our nation would not have found herself in this sorry state.”
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