A High Court of Akwa Ibom State sitting in Uyo has sentenced Professor Ignatius Uduk of the University of Uyo (UniUyo) to three years imprisonment for electoral fraud during the 2019 general elections.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had brought three charges against Uduk, a professor of Human Kinetics.
Out of the three charges, Justice Bassey Nkanang of Uyo High Court 5 acquitted Uduk on Count 1, but convicted and sentenced him to three years imprisonment each on Counts 2 and 3.
The sentences, according the judge, are to run concurrently.
Professor Peter Ogban, another UniUyo don, was similarly convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment in an earlier trial that began in 2019 for offenses related to the same elections.