Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission on Sunday declared the APC as the winner of all 18 chairmanship seats and the 196 councillorship seats.
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“From inception, the processes were skewed to favour the ruling All Progressives Congress from the composition of the electoral umpire.Support journalism driven by facts, created by Nigerians for Nigerians. Our thorough, researched reporting relies on the support of readers like you.“We underrated the charade that the electoral umpire was cooking in the name of the local government election witnessed on Saturday, 2 November.
“Again, in Obanlikwu and Bekwarra local government areas where ballot papers were distributed, no single results sheets accompanied them, and results were written on ordinary papers,” he stated.The PDP chairperson attributed these “shenanigans” to the APC’s “poor performance” at the federal and state levels.
“We state boldly that never in the political history of Cross River have electorate witnessed this kind of monumental electoral fraud perpetrated on Saturday. The commission’s chairperson, Ekong Boco, blamed the political parties for the lapses and stated that the commission did all it could to ensure a successful exercise.
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