The Court of Appeal in Calabar has upheld the conviction of Professor Peter Ogban, a soil science lecturer at the University of Calabar, who was sentenced to three years in prison for manipulating election results.
In March 2021, a high court in Akwa Ibom State found Professor Ogban guilty of falsifying the outcome of the 2019 senatorial election in Akwa Ibom north-west to favour the All Progressives Congress against the Peoples Democratic Party. He was also fined 100,000 naira.
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Ogban, who served as the returning officer in the election, was accused of announcing false results to benefit Godswill Akpabio, the then-APC senatorial candidate. He had claimed in his defence that he only collated results submitted by local government polling officers.
The appellate court affirmed both the conviction and sentence. In a related case, Professor Ignatius Uduk of the University of Uyo was also sentenced to three years in prison in February for falsifying results in the 2019 state house of assembly election in the same district.
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