Tribunal dismisses petition claiming thugs chased party agents in Wike’s LGA

Obio/Akpor Federal Constituency is same LGA where the former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike. hails from.

The petitioner contested the office of House of Representatives, Obio/Akpor Federal Constituency in the last National Assembly Election held on 25th February, 2023

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Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared the PDP candidate winner with a total votes of 60, 899 votes while Chinda was said to have scored 157 votes.

But the petitioners challenged the polls expressing displeasure with the results declared by INEC, accusing the electoral umpire of fundamentally breaching its guidelines.

The petitioners through their counsel, Emmanuel C. contended that going by the polling unit results he downloaded from the INEC Results Viewing Portal, IREV, INEC wrongly returned the PDP candidate as winner.

He urged the Tribunal to annul the election on the grounds that INEC breached its guidelines while mandating INEC to conduct another election within 3 months from the day of judgement.

The petitioners also alleged that contrary to the declared results, the electorate voted massively for him but at the conclusion of voting, his party’s polling units agents were allegedly chased away by PDP political thugs, thereby making it impossible to access the Form EC8As (PUs sheets).

Tribunal dismisses petition claiming thugs chased party agents in Wike’s LGA