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Senate President Godswill Akpabio [PHOTO CREDIT: Godswill Obot Akpabio]

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FOR THE RECORD: Appeal Court judgement affirming conviction, imprisonment of professor who rigged election for Akpabio

“The rank of (a) university professor is not one easily attainable and is certainly not a rank attained by fools,” the court said in its judgement.

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See below the judgement of the Court of Appeal, Calabar, which upheld the conviction and the three-year imprisonment of a Nigerian professor, Peter Ogban, by a lower court for rigging a 2019 senatorial election for Nigeria’s Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.

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The Appeal Court delivered the judgement on 30 April.
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