Nigeria: Breaking - Appeal Court Upholds Conviction of Professor Jailed for Rigging Election for Akpabio

Appeal court upholds 3-year jail term for professor who falsified electoral results for Akpabio

The Court of Appeal in Calabar has upheld the conviction of Professor Peter Ogban, a former returning officer in the 2019 Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial election, for electoral fraud. Ogban, a professor of soil physics at the University of Calabar, was sentenced to three years in prison for manipulating vote counts to benefit Godswill Akpabio, then minister of Niger Delta affairs and now Nigeria's senate president. In its Wednesday ruling, the …

Nigeria: Breaking - Appeal Court Upholds Conviction of Professor Jailed for Rigging Election for Akpabio

The Court of Appeal, apart from affirming Mr Ogban's conviction and the three-year jail term, frowned at his role as a university professor in the fraudulent manipulation of election results, a lawyer who participated in the case at the appellate court told PREMIUM TIMES, Wednesday afternoon.

Appeal Court upholds conviction of professor jailed for rigging election for Akpabio

The Court of Appeal, apart from affirming Mr Ogban’s conviction and the three-year jail term, frowned at his role as a university professor in the fraudulent manipulation of election results, a lawyer who participated in the case at the appellate court told PREMIUM TIMES, Wednesday afternoon. The post Appeal Court upholds conviction of professor jailed for rigging election for Akpabio appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

‘I Was the Victim, Not the Beneficiary’: Akpabio Said Jailed INEC Official Rigged Against Him

ABUJA, Nigeria – Senate President Godswill Akpabio has denied claims that a convicted Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) official, Professor Peter Ogban, manipulated election results in his favour during the 2019 senatorial election in Akwa Ibom North-West. In a statement issued by his media aide Aniete Ekong on Thursday, May 1, 2025, Akpabio described the allegations as “unfounded, spurious, malicious,” and part of a continuing ef…

Akpabio Not Involved In Ogban's Election Rigging ' Group

The Coalition for Good Governance and Economic Justice in Africa (CGGEJA) has faulted recent misleading reports circulated by certain media outlets, (excluding Daily Independent) claiming that the Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar upheld the conviction of Professor Peter Ogban for rigging a senatorial election in favour of Senator Godswill Akpabio. In a statement issued []

Akpabio Denies Ties to Convicted INEC Official, Claims He Was Victim of 2019 Election Fraud

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has distanced himself from Professor Peter Ogban, the former Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) official who was convicted of electoral fraud in 2021. Ogban was sentenced to three years in prison for manipulating results during the 2019 Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial election—an election Akpabio contested under the All Progressives Congress (APC). […] The post Akpabio Denies Ties to Convicted INEC…