Akwa Ibom State High Court1, sitting in
Ikot Ekpene has fixed July 12, 2021 to
deliver its ruling on the bail application
filed by Professor Peter Ogban, of the
University of Calabar, UNICAL, Cross
River State who was jailed three years for
electoral fraud, pending the
determination of his case by Court of
Appeal.

Justice Pius Idiong fixed the date after
taking arguments from Ogban’s team of
Lawyer’s led by Chief Kanu Agabi (SAN)
and INEC team of lawyers led by Clement
Onwuenwunor at the hearing of the bail
application on Thursday.

Professor Ogban, who is in custody at the
Federal Correctional centre, Ikot Ekpene,
had on June 17, 2021, through his Lawyers
applied for bail pending Appeal against
his conviction, which was supported by
16-paragraphs affidavit.

At the hearing of the bail request, the
applicant’s Lawyer, Chief Agabi, told the
court that his client’s request for bail was
filed based on Health grounds as stated in
paragraphs 9, 10 and 11 of the affidavit.

Agabi who told the Court that the medical
report tendered as Exhibit A3, issued by a
General Hospital of Akwa Ibom State
Government and made by an expert
indicates that his Client had been
hypertensive for 10years and therefore
deserves proper treatment outside the
walls of the correctional service.

He appealed to the court to show mercy
and exercise its discretion in favour of the
applicant stressing, “This application is
about the exercise of discretion”
But INEC through its Lawyer,
Onwuenwunor urged the court to
‘disallow’ the bail request, insisting that
the applicant must first prove exceptional
circumstance or unusual reason why the
Court should exercise discretion in his
favour.

Onwuenwunor who explained that in
opposition to the bail request they had
filed a 21 paragraph counter- affidavit,
argued that the fact that the applicant
request for bail lacks merit since his
medical record shows that notwithstanding that he is in custody, the authorities arrange his treatment where
he had been treated for the past 10years i
Recall that the UNICAL Professor of Soil
Science, served as Collation/ Returning
officer during the 2019 National Assembly
elections and was found guilty of
manipulating and falsifying the scores of
election results in Oruk Anam and Etim
Ekpo local government areas in favour of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) party.

Professor Ogban was arraigned before the
State High Court, Ikot Ekpene on
December 15, 2020 and Sentenced for
three years imprisonment in Charge no:
HT/29C/ 2020

with no option of fine in Count 2 and a
fine of one Hundred thousand naira
(100,000.00) in count 1.

He had pleaded not guilty to each of the
two count charges.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/court-fixes-july-12-for-ruling-in-jailed-unical-professors-bail-request/
Akwa Ibom State High Court1, sitting in
Ikot Ekpene has fixed July 12, 2021 to
deliver its ruling on the bail application
filed by Professor Peter Ogban, of the
University of Calabar, UNICAL, Cross
River State who was jailed three years for
electoral fraud, pending the
determination of his case by Court of
Appeal.

Justice Pius Idiong fixed the date after
taking arguments from Ogban’s team of
Lawyer’s led by Chief Kanu Agabi (SAN)
and INEC team of lawyers led by Clement
Onwuenwunor at the hearing of the bail
application on Thursday.

Professor Ogban, who is in custody at the
Federal Correctional centre, Ikot Ekpene,
had on June 17, 2021, through his Lawyers
applied for bail pending Appeal against
his conviction, which was supported by
16-paragraphs affidavit.

At the hearing of the bail request, the
applicant’s Lawyer, Chief Agabi, told the
court that his client’s request for bail was
filed based on Health grounds as stated in
paragraphs 9, 10 and 11 of the affidavit.

Agabi who told the Court that the medical
report tendered as Exhibit A3, issued by a
General Hospital of Akwa Ibom State
Government and made by an expert
indicates that his Client had been
hypertensive for 10years and therefore
deserves proper treatment outside the
walls of the correctional service.

He appealed to the court to show mercy
and exercise its discretion in favour of the
applicant stressing, “This application is
about the exercise of discretion”
But INEC through its Lawyer,
Onwuenwunor urged the court to
‘disallow’ the bail request, insisting that
the applicant must first prove exceptional
circumstance or unusual reason why the
Court should exercise discretion in his
favour.

Onwuenwunor who explained that in
opposition to the bail request they had
filed a 21 paragraph counter- affidavit,
argued that the fact that the applicant
request for bail lacks merit since his
medical record shows that notwithstanding that he is in custody, the authorities arrange his treatment where
he had been treated for the past 10years i
Recall that the UNICAL Professor of Soil
Science, served as Collation/ Returning
officer during the 2019 National Assembly
elections and was found guilty of
manipulating and falsifying the scores of
election results in Oruk Anam and Etim
Ekpo local government areas in favour of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) party.

Professor Ogban was arraigned before the
State High Court, Ikot Ekpene on
December 15, 2020 and Sentenced for
three years imprisonment in Charge no:
HT/29C/ 2020

with no option of fine in Count 2 and a
fine of one Hundred thousand naira
(100,000.00) in count 1.

He had pleaded not guilty to each of the
two count charges.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/court-fixes-july-12-for-ruling-in-jailed-unical-professors-bail-request/

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