Court grants bail to professor jailed for rigging election for APC

A High Court in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Thursday granted bail to Ignatius Uduk, a Nigerian professor who was jailed for three years for election fraud.

Mr Uduk, a professor of Human Kinetics at the University of Uyo was prosecuted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on three charges: announcement of false election results, publication of false results, and perjury during the 2019 general elections in Essien Udim State Constituency where he served as the…