Engr Emem Coffie, governorship candidate for Accord Party AP, Akwa ibom state By Freshgist
The Accord Party AP, has rejected the results of the governorship/Assembly elections which held in Akwa Ibom state on Saturday, 18th March 2023.
The State Returning Officer of Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) and Vice Chancellor of Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, Professor Emmanuel Adigio had declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Pastor Umo Eno as winner of the governor poll after generating a total of 356,346 votes to defeat his opponents.
In a press conference in uyo on Monday, the gubernatorial candidate for Accord Party in the State, Engr. Emem Coffie called for the cancellation of the results of the election, alleging that the exercise was marked by fraudulent and violence across the state.
He also alleged that the election was rigged and many people were killed in the process by the agent of PDP in the state.
Coffie maintained that there was need for INEC to re-organize a fresh election in the state, explaining that the violence emanated by Agents of PDP Made many members of Accord Party to return home leaving the agents to manipulate their results.
According to Engr Coffie, "Compliment to the good people of Akwa ibom state and members of Accord Party, i want to congratulate you for maintaining peace and order after election on the 18th March, 2023 .
"We are aware that the election was marked with thugery, wild state violence, massive vote buying (#10000per voter) by the agent of people democratic party (PDP), voters intimidation, and falsification of results at the unit, but irrespective of this, I still call on the members of Accord Party and my followers to maintain peace and order
I believe that we as civilians will do all that we can , and will not carry out actions that will mar our country Nigeria or make us seem living in the banana republic ."
"Subsequently, we call for cancelletion of results by INEC due to the above reasons and we call for proper election to be done but for now I call on everyone to maintain peace and order .
Some person's deliberately brought down our vote for reasons best known to them, investigation is ongoing, we believe to fetch them all out."
"In ABAK for instant, we witness a particular unit where Accord party was winning , PDP people came, ceased the ballot and thumpprinted on it turning all our votes to voil vote forcefully. But since we warn our members not to involve themselves in violence, so the level of violent that would have been established aborted."
On the question if there were security operatives in the unit, he responded that there were no security operatives sent to his unit in Abak.
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