Complaints trail Cross River polls

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29 April 2011

Complaints trail Cross River polls

Allegations of fraud in the elections conducted in Cross River State are pouring into the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Calabar. Aggrieved candidates of the defeated parties are calling for their outright cancellation.

Notable among the petitioners are Eyo Etim Nyong, Joseph Etene and Cletus Obun of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Victor Okon of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), and Victor Etim of the Labour Party (LP). They have vowed to take the winning Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the election tribunal once it is constituted.

In last Tuesday's house of assembly election in the state and the rescheduled senatorial election in Cross River South and Central senatorial districts, the opposition alleged that there was a high level of rigging and buying of votes.