All Progressives Congress candidate in the Anambra State governorship election, Andy Uba, has rejected the result of the governorship election held there on Saturday.
He said the election was soaked in irregularities, arguing that the 43,000 votes declared for him by the Independent National Electoral Commission was’allocated’ to him.
In a statement by the median man for his campaign organisation, Jerry Igbokwe, he advanced nothing less than eight reasons for his not accepting the result. He claimed:
1. Election was a charade
2. It does not reflect the aspiration of the people
3. Alleged voter suppression
4. Alleged gang-up between INEC and APGA
5. Votes declared more than acredited voters in many places.
6. APGA published election results online before INEC.
7. Over 200 people voted for Uba during APC primary.
8. APGA had lost 80 per cent of its stalwarts.
The statement read: “Our popular candidate, Senator Andy Uba is a victim of widespread electoral fraud and manipulation by INEC in cohorts with the Willie Obiano Regime and the security forces deployed to oversee the Anambra State Governorship Election.
“The elections were characterised by widespread irregularities, intimidation and voter suppression in order to clear the path for the inglorious ‘victory’ of APGA in the polls.
“For instance, in polling units where the Biometric Voters’ Accreditation System malfunctioned, INEC went ahead to conduct the elections manually. There were numerous cases where votes announced by INEC exceeded the number of accredited voters in polling units.
“Another clear manifestation of collusion between the Obiano Administration and INEC was the publishing of results on the Social Media handles of APGA even before official announcement by INEC. Yet mysteriously, the votes announced in advance by APGA always corresponded correctly with the official figures released by INEC.
“It is inconceivable that our candidate, who polled over 200,000 votes in the APC primary election would be allocated slightly above 43,000 votes by INEC.
“It is surprising that APGA that lost almost 80 per cent of its stalwarts through defection to the APC before the election came out ‘victorious’. A sitting APGA Deputy Governor, seven members of the House of Representatives, 10 members of the Anambra State House of Assembly, the APGA party’s member of Board of Trustees, many serving SA’s, SSA’s, in addition to a serving PDP Senator all defected to the APC very timely before the election, yet APGA emerged ‘victorious’. This is quite ridiculous.”
