By Pascal Oparada
Social Media/Tech Reporter
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called for the cancellation of the just concluded 2019 election results in Akwa Ibom State.
It would be recalled that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) swept all the polls from results announced by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state.
But the APC is insisting that the election did not meet the requirements of the 2010 Electoral Act.
In a statement by the APC chairman in the state, Ini Okopido, and the secretary, Augustine Ekanem, failure to, in particular, deliver election materials to designated RACK Centres as announced by INEC to all political parties in a briefing by the Resident Electoral Commissioner a few days to the elections, “misled party members to wait in vain in those centres while the state REC in collusion with his Electoral Officers and the PDP delivered the said election materials illegally to the homes of PDP leaders for illegal thumb printing of the ballots.”
Also, the party said that the failure of INEC in Akwa Ibom State to comply with the requirements of the Electoral Act 2010 (as Amended) for the conduct of elections which specifies the use of the card reader for the accreditation of voters, a requirement that was blatantly disregarded.
The party said that in the light of the points mentioned, the party states that the elections were not conducted according to the law in the state.
