The conviction of two professors who served as the Independent National Electoral Commission’s Returning Officers during the 2019 elections by the courts should encourage the commission and security agencies to prosecute more academics and others involved in electoral malfeasance so as to sanitise Nigeria’s electoral process, Wale Igbintade writes
The Court of Appeal in Calabar, Cross River State recently upheld the three-year prison sentence slammed on Professor Peter Ogban, who was found guilty in 2021 of manipulating senatorial election results in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2019
Ogban’s conduct was strongly condemned by the court, which described it as a betrayal of other academics and civic duty. It expressed disappointment that a university professor would be involved in the fraudulent manipulation of election results.