The court of appeal in Calabar has upheld the conviction of Prof. Peter Ogban of the University of Calabar, who was sentenced to prison for manipulating election results.
The Akwa Ibom state high court, had in 2021, sentenced Ogban to three years in prison for manipulating election results.
Ogban, who was the returning officer in the senatorial election in Akwa Ibom north-west in 2019, was also fined N100,000.
The court found Agban, a professor of soil science,guilty of altering results of the election to favour the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He was accused of announcing false election results in favour of Godswill Akpabio, candidate of the APC in the senatorial election.
Ogban had told the trial court that he did not influence the election but only collated the results as given to him by the polling officers of LGAs.
According to agency reports, the appellate court affirmed the conviction and the three-year prison sentence handed by the trial court.
In February 2025, the Akwa Ibom High Court in Uyo sentenced Prof. Ignatius Uduk, also of the University of Uyo, to three years imprisonment for falsification of election results.
Uduk was convicted for publishing false election results in relation to the 2019 state house of assembly election in Akwa Ibom north-west.
