PROFESSOR BAGS THREE YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR RIGGING ELECTION

PROFESSOR BAGS THREE YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR RIGGING ELECTION

A High Court in Akwa Ibom State has sentenced Professor Ignatius Uduk of the University of Uyo (UNIUYO) to three years imprisonment for electoral fraud during the 2019 general elections.

Of the three charges brought against him by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Justice Bassey Nkanang of Uyo High Court 5 acquitted Uduk, a Professor of Human Kinetics, on Count 1 but convicted and sentenced him to three years imprisonment each on Counts 2 and 3. The sentences are to run concurrently.

Professor Peter Ogban, another UNIUYO academic, was similarly convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment in an earlier trial that began in 2019 for offenses related to the same elections. (Vanguard: Text, Excluding Headline)