Candidate of All Progressive s Grand Alliance (APGA) for Anambra South Senatorial District in the just concluded National Assembly election, Dr. Ernest Ndukwe, has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to issue Certificate of Return to Senator Andy Uba, who he alleged was wrongly declared the winner of the March 28 poll.
Ndukwe, former vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), alleged that the election was characterized by monumental results manipulation and electoral violence.
Addressing a world press conference at his Oraiifite residence in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State yesterday, Ndukwe insisted that he won the contentious National Assembly poll with enough evidence on ground to prove his claims.
He said he had petitioned the INEC to complain the ‘monumental irregularities’ that characterized the election “in which Uba was wrongly declared the winner.” The former NCC boss alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwarts stormed the voting and collating centres with thugs, police and the army during the exercise and induced both INEC officials and ad-hoc staff to manipulate and influence the authentic results to favour the PDP candidate.
Dr. Ndukwe noted that the perpetrators of the alleged rigging capitalized on the fact that voting was concluded late on election day because of the failure of the card readers which eventually led to late collation that lasted over the night as there was no steady electricity supply to use for the collation. He further alleged that the results of the election were announced even when results were still coming in from some remaining council areas in the senatorial zone.
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