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The acting Chairman of the party in Cross River, Mr John Ochala, in a statement on Monday, said:

“We dissociate ourselves from this `rape on our democracy’ in the name of governorship and house of assembly elections.‘’

Ochala assured members of APC in the state that its leadership would seek legal means to redress the situation.

He, therefore, urged them to remain calm.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that INEC had on Monday, declared the incumbent governor, Benedict Ayade of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of Saturday’s election.

The incumbent governor of Cross River Benedict Ayade of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

According to INEC, Ayade polled 381,484 votes as against 131,161 polled by Sen. John Owan-Enoh, the governorship candidate of APC.

Similarly, the leadership of APC in Delta has called for outright cancellation of the governorship and state Assembly elections.

The Chairman of APC in Delta, Mr Jones Erue, who made this known in Warri on Monday, said that the party would approach the Election Petition Tribunal should the electoral umpire refuse to cancel the elections.

He said that the elections were marred by a lot of irregularities across the 25 local government areas of the state with the aid of security operatives.

“You all witnessed an electoral process where soldiers aided thugs to hijack ballot boxes and materials in collaboration with the presiding officers and thumb print them for a particular party.

“Our people were not allowed to enter any collation centres; our agents were treated as enemies of the electoral process.

“The whole place was militarised and results were changed at will.

APC governorship candidate in Cross River Senator John Enoh

“For example, at Emede Ward 5 unit 2 in Isoko South soldiers aided the destruction of that unit at about 10:00 a.m. ballot boxes and ballot papers were carted away.

“Our members were brutalised and presiding officers collaborated with PDP to undo us.

“In Warri South and Warri South-West most of the materials did not get to their units.

“We are, therefore, rejecting the result and also call on INEC to cancel the election and failure to do that, we will approach the Tribunal to get our mandate,’’ he said.

Prof. Serth Jaja, the Collation Officer in Delta had on Monday declared Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa as winner of the governorship election in the state.

According to Jaja, Okowa polled a total of 925,274 to defeat Great Ogboru of the APC who scored 215,938 votes in the contest.

Responding, the Spokesman of the 6 Division, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, Col. Aminu Ilyasu, said that APC’s allegations were baseless.

“People see security agencies as an instrument of the state that can be used by the ruling party.

“The opposition parties will bash on the security agency, the ruling party will also bash on the security agencies.

“The elections are over; if he is not satisfied, he should go the Election Petition Tribunal,” he said.

A supporter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) holds up the sign of President Muhammadu Buhari's re-election campaign [Twitter/@BuhariCentre]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River and Delta states, have rejected results of Saturday’s Governorship and State House of Assembly elections announced by INEC.

APC rejects governorship, state assembly election results in Cross River, Delta

<h1>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says 26 political parties will participate in Saturday’s governorship election in Cross River state.</h1>

INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Dr Frankland Briyai, disclosed this at a meeting with representatives of political parties, Civil Society Organisations and other interest groups in Calabar on Tuesday.

He said INEC regards every political party as equal, adding that as far as the commission is concerned, no party is bigger than the other.

The REC called on the leaders of political parties to caution their supporters against snatching of ballot boxes during the election, saying it is no longer fashionable.

“Please, I want you to advise your supporters to stop snatching or hijacking of ballot boxes because you will score zero in that polling booth.

“Any polling unit or polling booth where there is no voting as a result of either violence; snatching of ballot papers; or hijacking of election materials, that is zero votes.

“So, they will be doing you harm than good by performing any of those acts,” Briyai said.

He said that, after review of the recently conducted Presidential and National Assembly elections, INEC declared Cross River as one of the states with the best results and performed very well.

“That is why we are not going to have supplementary election on Saturday. There is no going to be any supplementary election in Cross River comes Saturday,” he said.

He, however, promised to address all genuine complaints arising from the last elections as brought forward by the electorate during the Governorship and House of Assembly elections.

Briyai threatened to punish INEC staff who collude with politicians to breach elections rules and guidelines.

Speaking, the state Deputy Governor, Prof. Ivara Esu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), advised the commission to improve on its performance in the recent elections.

According to him, there were lots of irregularities during the conduct of the recent elections in my Local Government Area (Biase).

“We have 34 polling units in Biase and with a difficult terrain.

“There were serious problems during the elections including shortage of canoes; malfunctioning of card readers or inability of ad hoc staff to operate card reader machines; and inadequate policemen at polling units.

“All these led to massive cancellation of votes in the area and deprived people of their right to vote.

“There should be an improvement because we cannot claim to have successfully conduct election when majority of the people are disenfranchised for no reason of theirs.

“We want that to be corrected in Saturday’s election,” he said.

Also speaking, Chairman of Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Mr Paddy Ally, commended the commission for the successes in the last election and advised for improvement in the next election.

INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Dr Frankland Briyai, disclosed this at a meeting with representatives of political parties in Calabar on Tuesday.

26 political parties to feature in governorship poll in Cross River – INEC

<h1>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Cross River has said it registered 1,527,058 voters for the forthcoming General Elections. </h1>

The State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr Frankland Briyai stated this on Monday in Calabar at a meeting with People with Disabilities (PwDs).

He said that the number represented those registered before 2015 election and during the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) from 2017 to Aug. 2018.

He, however, said that some Permanent Voter Cards were yet to be collected, but expressed the hope that the number would be reduced drastically before the election.

We have taken the PVCs collection to the wards and reports are coming in and we hope that before the elections all the cards may be collected, he said.

Briyai advised the PwDs who were yet to collect their cards to visit the nearest collection centers in their area and collect their cards, so as to vote during the election.

He added that INEC was doing everything possible to ensure that all those eligible voted in the election irrespective of his or her condition.

According to him, the commission is making special arrangements for PwDs to vote easily at the polling boots.

The aged and People with Disabilities are to be given preferential treatment during voting and INEC is working on ensuring that all votes count this time, he said.

The Commissioner said that the meeting was part of INECs desire to ensure that all stakeholders in the electoral process were carried along in its preparations for a credible election.

The State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr Frankland Briyai stated this on Monday in Calabar at a meeting with People with Disabilities (PwDs).

INEC registers 1.5m voters in Cross River

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