Court Jails UNIUYO Professor 3 Years For Electoral Fraud

An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a University of Uyo (UNIUYO) professor of Human Kinetics, Ignatius Uduk, to three years imprisonment for electoral fraud during the 2019 general elections.

The court found Prof Uduk guilty of two of the three-count charge preferred against him by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Justice Bassey Nkanang of Uyo High Court 5, in the judgement delivered on Wednesday, acquitted Uduk in Count 1, while he was convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment, each on Count 2 and 3 which are to be served concurrently.

Another professor from the institution, Peter Ogban who was also arraigned by the electoral body under similar circumstances, had earlier been convicted and sentenced to three years jail term in the trial that commenced in 2019 over that year’s general elections.