UNIBEN Lecturer in Custody for Falsifying Election Results for PDP
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Lecturer in custody for falsifying election results

By Jethro Ibileke

April 13, 2011 05:16AM



A senior lecturer in the University of Benin, Paul Uwugiaren, is now in police custody for attempting to falsify results of the polls conducted in Ugbogui Ward 8 of Ovia federal constituency of Edo State last Saturday.

Mr. Uwugiaren who is now in the custody of the state CID in Benin City, was employed as a collation officer by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He was apprehended after causing confusion at the Iguobazuwa collation centre by allegedly adding 8,000 votes to the 1,123 votes of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the constituency, after allegedly collecting the sum of N5m.

It was gathered that trouble started when at about 2pm on Sunday, 24 hours after the polls, Mr Uwugiaren was yet to turn up at Iguobazuwa with the result sheet for Ward 8.

Worried by the development and after several attempts to get the lecturer through telephone calls and text messages failed, the electoral officer for the area, Chinyere Amakiri had to alert the divisional police officer, in the area, Mr Awe Francis who got Mr. Uwugiaren to the collation centre.

With the situation degenerating, Mr Uwugiaren presented a score sheet for Ward 8, which showed that the PDP scored 10,123 votes while the ACN scored 1,337 votes; whereas there are less than 3,500 voters registered in the unit.

At the prodding of the police, soldiers, the ACN agents and supervisors during interrogation, even with threats of arrest if he failed to tell the truth, Mr Uwugiaren still insisted that the scores were valid. Mrs Amakiri had to order a recount of the votes for the unit. At the end, it was discovered that the lecturer had falsified the election result to favour the PDP that actually scored 1,123, while the ACN scored 1,337 in the ward.

Upon further interrogation, Mr. Uwugiaren admitted that he was pressurized by officials of the PDP in the unit and the PDP candidate, Charity Amaeyaevbo, to falsify the election results. He further revealed that he was offered around N5m which he alleged had already been paid into his bank account.

Meanwhile, there are indications that the PDP candidate, Mr Amaeyaevbo, might soon join Mr Uwugiaren in detention over his role in the falsification of the votes in Ward 8. It would be recalled that Mr Amaeyaevbo’s candidacy is still a subject of a petition brought against him by a co-contestant, Lucy Omagbon, who alleged that the PDP national secretariat should nullify his nomination on grounds that he never resigned his employment as a staff of FinBank Plc.

When contacted on phone, Edo State police command spokesperson, Peter Ogboi, declined comment, saying that he did not have the facts about the incident.

Free and fair elections indeed. PDP is made up of world class mad men/women who are mentally deranged and could not do without corruption.
When they think, they think of corruption
When they talk, they talk of corruption
When they sleep, they dream of corruption
Elections tribunal would definitely tell Nigerians more. A free and fair elections indeed.

Abeg give GEJ props if he is letting PDP guys get scrutinized like this. These are steps towards democracy. Props to Jega of course.

Dumb lecturer! He doesn't even know his mathematics. He should be jailed for that in addition to his rigging.

smh @ this PDP

jumobi1:

Abeg give GEJ props if he is letting PDP guys get scrutinized like this.

Please be informed that this dastardly behaviour of the PDP and the lecturer would not have come to light if  Edo State was to be under the control of PDP; if however in doubt, please  ask Senator David Mark, Bukola Saraki, etc.

How can the lecturer mumu give PDP 10,123 votes when there are less than 3,500 voters registered in the unit! That is not a PDP matter.
The lecturer mumu is a $?^*! He should be FIRED!

Kenyy:

Please be informed that this dastardly behaviour of the PDP and the lecturer would not have come to light if  Edo State was to be under the control of PDP; if however in doubt, please  ask Senator David Mark, Bukola Saraki, etc.

This is the biggest reason the PDP needs to go, really. Can you imagine commending someone for not rigging votes? To give "props", as jumobi1 suggests? 

How about we just get rid of the party that rigs in the first place and have a legitimate democracy?

N5M to falsify election results?

I will take that!

Too bad he got caught!

ziccoit:

Free and fair elections indeed. PDP is made up of world class mad men/women who are mentally deranged and could not do without corruption.
When they think, they think of corruption
When they talk, they talk of corruption
When they sleep, they dream of corruption
Elections tribunal would definitely tell Nigerians more. A free and fair elections indeed.

What exactly are you talking about? A candidate tried to manipulate the elections, but failed due to the commitment of the President and the Inec chairman for free and fair elections. The fact that this person is PDP does not in anyway remove the fact that Mr. President is not sincere. Arguements such as this are actually childish.
For goodness sake, let us commend Mr President and Jega for a job well done. Should we rubbish Jega because a lecturer employed by INEC accepted bribe?

Manipulation of elections has nothing to do with party names, it has to do with corrupt individuals. I dont belong to any political party, but those who want to crucy Mr President because someone in his oparty tried to rig should think again.

noblezone:

What exactly are you talking about? A candidate tried to manipulate the elections, but failed due to the commitment of the President and the Inec chairman for free and fair elections. The fact that this person is PDP does not in anyway remove the fact that Mr. President is not sincere. Arguements such as this are actually childish.
For goodness sake, let us commend Mr President and Jega for a job well done. Should we rubbish Jega because a lecturer employed by INEC accepted bribe?

Manipulation of elections has nothing to do with party names, it has to do with corrupt individuals. I dont belong to any political party, but those who want to crucy Mr President because someone in his oparty tried to rig should think again.

  If you joined the meaningful highlighted parts together in your comment above it reads;

"A candidate tried to manipulate the elections, but failed. The fact that this person is[b] PDP[/b] and For goodness sake, manipulation of elections has nothing to do with party names, it has to do with corrupt individuals. Those who want to crucy Mr President because someone in his party tried to[b] rig[/b] should think again"

  Go and change your username. I can't engage you in critical reasoning as your thought is already poison by my-leader-is-always-right syndrome, which is very difficult to cure.

noblezone:

What exactly are you talking about? A candidate tried to manipulate the elections, but failed due to the commitment of the President and the Inec chairman for free and fair elections. The fact that this person is PDP does not in anyway remove the fact that Mr. President is not sincere. Arguements such as this are actually childish.
For goodness sake, let us commend Mr President and Jega for a job well done. Should we rubbish Jega because a lecturer employed by INEC accepted bribe?

Manipulation of elections has nothing to do with party names, it has to do with corrupt individuals. I dont belong to any political party, but those who want to crucy Mr President because someone in his oparty tried to rig should think again.

too much talk. It was the vigilance of Acn agents that exposed the fraud, not gej or jega.

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noblezone:

What exactly are you talking about? A candidate tried to manipulate the elections, but failed due to the commitment of the President and the Inec chairman for free and fair elections. The fact that this person is PDP does not in anyway remove the fact that Mr. President is not sincere. Arguements such as this are actually childish.
For goodness sake, let us commend Mr President and Jega for a job well done. Should we rubbish Jega because a lecturer employed by INEC accepted bribe?

Manipulation of elections has nothing to do with party names, it has to do with corrupt individuals. I dont belong to any political party, but those who want to crucy Mr President because someone in his oparty tried to rig should think again.

too much talk. It was the vigilance of Acn agents that exposed the fraud, not gej or jega.