APC Gained Akpabio’s LG, AKISIEC Insists

The Akwa Ibom State Unbiased Electoral Fee (AKISIEC) has insisted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) gained Senate President, Godswill Akpabio’s native authorities, Essien Udim, in Saturday’s election.

The election has been a topic of controversy which has embarrassed the State Governor, Umo Eno, who’s of the Peoples Democratic Party.

He has obtained backlash and has been on the receiving finish of what many have termed a fraud.

Eno was accused of hobnobbing with Akpabio who’s of the APC for political expediency as he’ll search second time period in 2027, one thing that has angered PDP leaderships and supporters in Abuja and the state.

Hassle began when the Chairman of AKISIEC, Aniedi Ikoiwak, declared Ntiedo Usoro of the APC because the elected candidate for Essien Udim LGA, whereas stating that the PDP reportedly gained all different LGAs of the state.

Ikoiwak, who was already beneath stress earlier than the election from the APC overruled Inyang Ating, a professor from the College of Uyo, who served because the Returning Officer (RO) for the election within the LG who had declared the PDP’s candidate , Enobong Patrick because the winner.

THE WHISTLER reviews that, Appearing had declared that, “I hereby certify that I used to be the Returning Officer for the election held on the fifth of October 2024.

“The election was contested, and the candidates obtained the next votes: Hon. Ntiedo Usoro of the APC: 686 votes; Engr. Enobong Patrick Friday of the PDP: 55,612 votes.

“Engr. Enobong Patrick Friday, having complied with the necessities of the regulation and having scored the vast majority of votes, is hereby declared elected.

“He additionally obtained greater than 25% of the votes in all 13 wards of Essien Udim. I so declare, and I hereby signal because the Returning Officer,” he had mentioned.

However in what has been described as a present of disgrace and sham, Ikoiwak overruled him to declare the APC candidate because the winner with out stating numerous scores as towards what the returning officer gave as their respective scores.

The returning officer too was reportedly threatened and was not allowed to go to the collation centre the place Ikoiwak declared the outcomes for all of the returning officers for the elections as he refused to do the directive given to him by AKISIEC.

He additionally reportedly refused to choose calls or reply calls when from the fee when it was learnt again on the collation centre that “he was doing the proper factor and would announce the precise winner of the election,” one thing that angered AKISIEC.

Fascinating, when the outcomes had been turned in, Ikoiwak introduced particular person scores from the candidates in ther native governments besides Essien Udim elevating severe integrity query that he was doing Eno’s bidding to pacify Akpabio.

However Ikoiwak denied the accusation reasonably insisting APC gained and accused the returning officer for Essien Udim LG within the election as being a phony.

Ikoiwak defined that he had obtained a report from the Assistant Electoral Officer (AEO) that the Electoral Officer despatched to the realm had absconded with poll supplies despatched to Essien Udim and hurriedly despatched the AEO again with mandatory supplies to conduct the election and convey the end result.

In keeping with him, the RO for Essien Udim within the election was Prof Okon, who introduced the election end result for APC as 51,751 and PDP as 22,799 votes, outcomes he didn’t announce in Sunday claiming weren’t obtainable.

He alleged that, “The person who claimed to be the returning officer in Essien Udim was not on the listing of appointed Returning Officers for the Saturday’s train, the profitable margin by the PDP candidate on the video was too overwhelming to have denied the winner and his supporters didn’t revolt.

“It was after they found that the what the Polling Officer did in Essien Udim was found by AKISIEC, that they hurriedly went to someplace in Ewet Housing, to do the video, utilizing drivers and unidentified individuals as their crowd to current what they offered to mislead the general public.

“By the point they introduced their end result, they had been informed that Essien Udim’s end result was already filed and I had insisted that outcomes should be recorded on kind 08D and that’s what was accepted from all of the LGAs,” he acknowledged.