Following the withdrawal of the case he filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja, which sought to challenge his defeat in the senatorial election, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Akwa Ibom North West senatorial district in the February 23, Senatorial election, Godswill Akpabio, and his party, have approached the Election Tribunal, sitting in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, to kick-start the legal processes that would lead to the validation of his victory at the poll.
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Akpabio is seeking to upturn the victory of Mr Christopher Ekpenyong and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), based on perceived electoral irregularities which characterised the said election. The former Senate Minority Leader, had while the election was ongoing, besieged the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), alleging cases of infractions and deliberate violations of the electoral law and guidelines during the senatorial election.
In the said election, INEC had declared Mr. Ekpeyong and his party, the PDP, winner of the poll, having scored 118,215 as against Akpabio’s 83,158.
