senator Andy Uba
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra State says it is heading to the House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal in Awka to challenge the declaration of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, senator Andy Uba, winner of the Anambra South Senatorial district re-run election conducted Tuesday, March 20.
Uba had beaten the APGA candidate in the election, Hon. Chuma Nzeribe by 42,802 to 40,678 votes to be declared winner by the Returning Officer (RO) for the election, Prof. Eugene Aniam of the University of Calabar.
But at a press briefing in Awka yesterday, Secretary of APGA, Okoli Akirika, a lawyer said: “The position of APGA is that the re-run election on March 20, in Anambra South Senatorial district didn’t go without fault. There are areas that didn’t meet with the requirements of the law for the election and we intent to take up the matter at the Election Petition Tribunal.”
He alleged that in Osumenyi ward 2, Nnewi South Local Council Area, the APGA agents and some INEC staff were beaten on the day of the election and the results falsified.
He said that when the results were tendered at Ukpor, headquarter of the local government where collation for the council area took place, his party formally protested against result from Osumenyi ward 2, but that the Electoral/Returning Officers refused to accept their petition until he personally became rowdy, thereby making the RO for the council area to start re-computing the result from the said ward after it had been announced.
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