Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in last Saturday’s re-run election in Benue South Senatorial District, Daniel Onjeh, disclosed that he will go to tribunal to challenge the victory of David Mark, who was declared winner.
After the poll, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announced Mark, a former Senate President, winner and set to return to the Senate after he was earlier sacked.
However, in a chat with The Guardian, Onjeh admitted that though the election was free and fair in most places of the zone, he and his supporters totally reject the outcome.
He stressed that the result of the poll was not the true reflection of what transpired at the poll.
According to Onjeh, he knows he won the poll and that the votes margin between him and Mark is very slim.
“I and my party supporters are consulting and after meeting with party leaders we will approach the tribunal, which we believe will declare me winner of the election.
“Senator Mark took the opportunity to rig the election when results from some polling units started filtering in and they realised that I was winning in most of them. Then they dumped the voting process and embark on massive thumb printing of ballot papers,” Onjeh alleged.
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