The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has arraigned Professor IGNATIUS UDUK of the University Of Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State on a three-count charge bordering on electoral fraud and perjury.

Professor UDUK is accused of trying to rig the 2019 Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District election, with previous attempts by INEC to arraign him not successful as he went into hiding.

UDUK is charged with three counts of abandoning his assigned duties as the collation and returning officer in the State House of Assembly Election and unlawfully generating scores and entering same.

He served as a collation/returning officer in charge of Essien Udim State Constituency during the March 21, 2019 poll and is facing trial over his role in the 2019 general elections in the state.