The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday, commended the judiciary for its courage to stand on the side of the people to jail a returning officer who was accused of rigging during the 2019 general elections.

Peter Ogban, a professor of soil science at the University of Calabar, was handed a three-year jail term for manipulating the result of the Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial election.

The PDP, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, expressed the hope that the long arm of the law would soon catch up with other corrupt returning officers.

Part of the statement read, “It is shameful that individuals who had attained the peak of enviable career in the academia could submit themselves as willing tools in the hands of a fraudulent, debased and manipulative political party to alter election results and subvert the collective will of the people in the 2019 elections.

“Such individuals can now see the deplorable situation of economic depression, excruciating hardship, terrorism, killings, kidnapping, social and infrastructural decay, which their fraudulent and unpatriotic action has plunged our nation.”

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