2019 elections were not manipulated in Akwa Ibom

2019 elections were not manipulated in Akwa Ibom - Mike Igini

The Akwa Ibom Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mike Igini, has spoken about the results of presidential and National Assembly elections in the state

- Igini disclosed that the outcomes of the polls were not manipulated saying all allegations are incorrect

- According to him, the commission had put in place, anti-rigging devices to check election malpractice in the state

Mike Igini, the Akwa Ibom Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), has denied manipulating the presidential and National Assembly election results in the state.

Igini made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Uyo on Saturday, March 2. He said that the allegation was not true and that the election was not manipulated.

Igini said that elections were won and lost at the polling units, saying the REC would not be at the polling units from the beginning to the close of the polls.

According to him, “The allegations are incorrect, we have a total of 2,980 polling units, I was not in any these polling units from the opening to the close of the polls. I have no vote to given nor will I allow anybody to manipulate the election process.”

He noted that the commission had put in place, anti-rigging devices to check election malpractice in the state.

Igini explained that the strength of the political parties were determined on the election day at the polling units. The REC said that henceforth, no politician would have access to poll officials in the state.

Igini said: “No politician will know the level of presiding and collation officers in the state. They can no longer be the ones to supply ad-hoc staff that function in those categories.”

The Akwa Ibom REC noted that the era where politicians were writing results had ended in Akwa Ibom, alleging that politicians before now carried result sheets to their houses, thumb print and re-write results.

Igini said: “What they used to do in time past is to write results but it is now that they allow people to vote their conscience. The era of writing results on behalf of the good people of Akwa Ibom is gone forever.”

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Reacting, Sen. Ita Enang, the Senior Special Adviser to President Buhari on National Assembly Matters, said that there were several irregularities during the Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.

Enang said: “The results in Akwa Ibom do not in any manner reflect the true voting and will of the people of the state. It was heavily and massively manipulated by the PDP in collision with an alliance with INEC’s permanent and Ad-hoc staff in the state.

“Throughout the course of the campaign, I try to personally avoid castigating INEC, i have aligned myself with all the complains that we as a party made against the Akwa Ibom REC.

“And I have thought that in the course of the elections that he will display what I thought I knew about him in terms of integrity but the last elections of Feb 23, is the lowest low.”

Legit.ng had earlier reported that Mike Igini, the REC in Akwa Ibom, revealed that the failures of political parties to stick to INEC’s timetables and a plethora of petitions against the commission with regards to primaries, was one of the main reasons why the 2019 general elections was postponed.

Igini said: “Today within this period we are talking about, we have had a total of 640 cases joining INEC, and a total of 14 court orders either asking INEC to add or remove a name.”

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