The
immediate past Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of Akwa
Ibom State, Mr. Uwemedimo Nwoko, on Tuesday, caused a stir at the
Independent National Electoral Commission office in Uyo during the
inspection of electoral materials by the agents of the All Progressives
Congress.
People watched in surprise as Nwoko
removed his suit and folded the sleeves of his shirts in readiness to
fight with the APC agents who were carrying out the inspection orders of
the Akwa Ibom Election Petitions Tribunal.
The tribunal had on Thursday ordered an
“extension of time to inspect, copy and scan ballot papers and other
election materials” used to declare former Governor Godswill Akpabio as
the winner of the March 28, 2015 Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial
district election.
Daniel Etokiden, the media aide to the
APC senatorial candidate for Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial district,
Mr. Inibehe Effiong, alleged that a combative Nwoko disrupted the
inspection process by shouting and swearing.
Etokiden said that Nwoko vowed not to allow the scanning of the over 45,000 ballot papers in contention.
He
said, “INEC officials, party agents and journalists present watched in
shock as Nwoko recreated a replica of the Godwin Orubebe show at the
International Conference Centre, Abuja, during the collation and
announcement of the presidential election results.
“Activities at the conference hall of
the electoral commission in Uyo, venue of the inspection, came to a
standstill for more than two hours. Security personnel comprising mostly
men of the State Security Service and the police, however, pleaded with
the APC agents to exercise restraint despite the unwarranted
provocation to avoid an escalation of the crisis.”
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