APC guber candidate Umana Okon calls for cancellation of election in Akwa Ibom.

 The All Progressives Congress guber candidate in Akwa Ibom state, Umana Okon Umana has called for the cancellation of the presidential and senatorial elections in Akwa Ibom due to general irregularities. Umana who spoke to PMnews in his home town, Nsit Ubium, said that the elections in most parts of the state has been compromised due absence of card readers and result sheets. He said most polling units in the local government were without card readers and result sheets. Umana also alleged that Senator Effiong Bob of the Peoples Democratic Party and other top PDP members in the state have connived with Independent Electoral Commission, INEC officials to produce fake results on the election result sheets. “I am calling for the cancellation of the election here in my local government, Nsit Ubuim because none of the polling units have result sheets. The election here is a total waste of time because result sheets are not here. Some units don’t even have card readers,” he said. The APC guber candidate called on all APC members in the state to be calm as he would take up the issue with the INEC officials in Abuja. He said, “I call on all our members in the state to be calm. We will take up the issue with INEC and we hope that the situation would be address.” Meanwhile, the INEC presiding official in the local government has confirmed that there no election result given to them at the INEC office. He said, “They did not give us election result. We were ask to go and commence the accreditation. Maybe they will send the results later.”