Group decries vote buying, voter initimidation as #AkwaIbomDecide

As more details emerge following the governorship  and state assembly elections in Akwa Ibom, a pressure group based in Uyo, capital city of Akwa Ibom, the Ibom Patriotic Renaissance, has decried what it called “the dirty and illegal tactics deployed by the PDP in an attempt to gain undue advantage and rescue what it described as a ‘sinking ship’ as elections progressed.”

According to them, items like mobile phones, cash, foodstuff, and others were allegedly seen, being handed out by the ruling PDP, in an attempt to persuade and coerce voters into voting for the party, as they also claimed it was reported by their observers who were deployed on election monitoring duty in the state by the group.

The group’s spokesperson, Mr Bassey Ekerette said, “This is not only untoward, but illegal as it goes against the provision of the Electoral Act, which contains the rules and regulations guiding gubernatorial and state assembly elections across the country.”

The group would also called the attention of the national leadership of the INEC, as well as other security and law enforcement agencies to this phenomenon, as according to it, it undermines the very foundations on which elections are built and regulated.