Uduaghan thanks electorate, petitions INEC on alleged electoral malpractices

DELTA South Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, has thanked his supporters and the electorate for standing by him during the electioneering process.

The former governor, who lost the Saturday National Assembly poll to Senator James Manager of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), however, said he had petitioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over alleged frauds that transpired during the poll.

Uduaghan, in a statement by his Media Assistant, Mr Monoyo Edon, on Tuesday, blamed his defeat on “electoral malpractices, irregularities, ballot stuffing and … electoral violence in some parts of Burutu, Bomadi, Patani, Warri North and Isoko North LGAs.”

He, therefore, called for the outright cancellation of the poll based on the foregoing.

He urged his supporters to exercise restraint and remain calm and peaceful while awaiting further directives.

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The statement reads thus: “Following the result released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly Election in Delta South Senatorial District, His Excellency, Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, we wish to state as follows:

“His Excellency, Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan wishes to express his profound appreciation to the people of Delta South Senatorial District for their overwhelming support throughout the period of electioneering.

“His Excellency, Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan wishes to state that the above election was fraught with a lot of electoral malpractices, irregularities, ballot stuffing and further crippled with electoral violence in some parts of Burutu, Bomadi, Patani, Warri North and Isoko North LGAs.

“His Excellency, Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan had already petitioned INEC in respect to paragraph two above during collation of results and the final announcement at the Senatorial Collation Centre in Oleh, Isoko South LGA.

“His Excellency, Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan in the petition called for the cancellation of the Presidential/National Assembly election held in Delta South.

“His Excellency, Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan calls on his supporters and the good people of Delta South to remain calm and peaceful as further directives would be communicated.”