Mr Egbe Abeng-Egbe, the candidate of the All Progressive Congress for Obubra/Etung Federal Constituency of Cross River has rejected the announcement of result by the Independent National Electoral Commission declaring the candidate of the People's Democratic Party, Mr Mike Etaba as winner.
The rejection of the result is contained in a statement issued on Thursday in Calabar by the Director General of the Campaign Organization, Barrister Agbor-Agbor Njok.
INEC had earlier declared Etaba winner of the election with a total vote of 7,799 votes as against the APC candidate who got 7,036 votes.
"The attention of Mr Egbe Abeng Egbe Campaign Organization has been drawn to the announcement of result by INEC, declaring Etaba as the winner of Saturday February 23 National Assembly election.
"To the best of our knowledge, elections in Etung Local government area were cancelled by INEC while the results of three wards of Obubra, namely Ofodua, Osopong 2, Ofumbongha/Yala were also cancelled.
"It is significant to note that the total registered votes in the affected areas including Etung 37,000 while the three wards in Obubra are 21,500 registers voters totalling 58,500.
"This figures are far in excess of the margin between the two leading candidates whose total scores as reported by INEC returning officer for Etung/Obubra indicated as 7,799 for PDP and 7,036 totalling the actual votes of the constituency on the said election date to 14,835 which is less than one third of the total registered voter's in the federal constituency. As a result of these and other reasons, the elections remain inconclusive
"In view of the above issues, which affected the credibility of the elections, we outrightly reject the announcement of the result by INEC.
"We, therefore, demand that INEC relies on precedents and relevant provisions in the Electoral Act and its own Guidelines for the 2019 Elections to conduct rerun elections in the affected areas.
"We request INEC to do the right thing, let the discerning people of Obubra/Etung Federal constituency decide their fate and give legitimacy to the electoral process", the statement added.
The campaign organization urged the teeming supporters to remain calm as legitimate means are been taken to reclaim the mandate.
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