With the results declared so far by Returning Officers in the 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections held on Saturday, the Peoples Democratic Party
Peter Ogban, a professor of Soil Science at the University of Calabar, was on 25 March, 2021, sentenced to three years imprisonment for fraudulent manipulation of the 2019 senatorial election results, and publishing and announcing of false results.
Smarting from the Supreme Court judgement which affirmed him as the APC candidate in the race for Ikot Ekpene senatorial district (Akwa Ibom North-West) seat,