The court of appeal in Calabar has affirmed the conviction
of Peter Ogban, a professor of soil science at the University of Calabar, who
was sentenced to prison for manipulating election results.
In March 2021, the high court in Akwa Ibom state sentenced Ogban
to three years in prison for manipulating election results.
Ogban, who was the returning officer in the senatorial
election in Akwa Ibom north-west in 2019, was also fined N100,000.
The court found the professor guilty of altering results of
the election to favour the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
The professor was accused of announcing false election
results in favour of Godswill Akpabio, then-APC senatorial candidate.
Ogban had told the trial court that he did not influence the
election but only collated the results as given to him by the polling officers
of LGAs.
According to Premium Times, the appellate court affirmed the
conviction and the three-year prison sentence handed by the trial court.
In February 2025, the Akwa Ibom high court in Uyo sentenced
Ignatius Uduk, a professor at the University of Uyo, to three years
imprisonment for falsification of election results.
Uduk was convicted for publishing false election results in
relation to the 2019 state house of assembly election in Akwa Ibom north-west.
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