By Ene Asuquo
Barely six days after the senatorial Election was conducted in the country, Cross River State chapter of the All Progressives Congress APC says it has rejected in totality result of the Northern Senatorial election which Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC in Ogoja
In a press conference at the party secretariat in calabar, the state chairman of APC in Cross River State, Barr. Alphonsus Eba alleged that, the election was marred with wide spread irregularities
“We reject the outcome of the Northern Senatorial election results in the state, we are going to contest the result to the highest level that the law permit” he said.
According to Eba; “we have avalanche of evidence at our disposal, the irregularities and criminal intimidation and terrorist activities that was perpetuated against the innocent electorate of our own party with field video proves”.
The party chairman also said that these irregularities were aided by some none state actors in connivance with some unprofessional security agents, some of them impersonated the Police in uniform to intimidate APC supporters at the various polling unit especially in the northern cross River.
He said some military personnel who went to do theirs work according to their professional calling allowed them selves to be used by criminally minded politicians who are so desperate to rig election
He described PDP Northern Senatorial victory as perry victory that will evaporate into the thin air, while calling on APC supporters not to take to the street, promising to follow the path of law to a logical conclusion
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