An Akwa Ibom State Excessive Courtroom sitting in Uyo has sentenced a College of Uyo (UNIUYO) professor of Human Kinetics, Ignatius Uduk, to a few years imprisonment for electoral fraud in the course of the 2019 basic elections.
The court docket discovered Prof Uduk responsible of two of the three-count cost most popular in opposition to him by the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC).
Justice Bassey Nkanang of Uyo Excessive Courtroom 5, within the judgement delivered on Wednesday, acquitted Uduk in Rely 1, whereas he was convicted and sentenced to a few years imprisonment, every on Rely 2 and three that are to be served concurrently.
One other professor from the establishment, Peter Ogban who was additionally arraigned by the electoral physique underneath comparable circumstances, had earlier been convicted and sentenced to a few years jail time period within the trial that commenced in 2019 over that yr’s basic elections.
