While the governorship and state house of assembly elections are still in progress across the country, with Nigerians waiting in anticipation for their desired candidate to emerge winner, the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State has called for the cancellation of the polls.
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The state’s APC gubernatorial candidate, Umana Umana, made the call while speaking with Nigerian Pilot reporter in his Ndiya ward.
He said PDP agents have hijacked materials from INEC staff making it impossible for voters to participate in the election.
The party’s guber candidate further explained that reports from across the state by the party’s agents also revealed widespread disenfranchisement of voters following attempts by the PDP thugs to hijack election materials.
Umana further disclosed that security agents intercepted election materials comprising result sheets in the House of a PDP chieftain in Nsit Ubium local council.
According to him, although the election materials were handed back to INEC officials, the people refused to vote because the ballot papers were incomplete.
“In the light of this we are therefore calling for the cancelation of the polls in Akwa Ibom since widespread hijack of materials in all the local governments of the state did not allow voters to exercise their franchise,” he said.
Umana said he has already made a formal report to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the development.
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