One dead, many wounded as Cultists attacks in UNIUYO

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Uyo (UNIUYO), Akwa Ibom State, Prof. Enefiok Essien has annulled the Student Union Election (SUG) over crisis which allegedly led to the death of one student with 10 others seriously wounded.

It was gathered that the election was cancelled following violent rival cult group fights at the Town and Annex campuses of the university leading to a disruption of the exercise.

Elections were said to have been earlier cancelled at the Faculty of Social Sciences’ Polling Unit by the Dean of Student Affairs Dr. Aniekan Brown, due to “irregularities and electoral malpractices”.

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It was learnt that angry supporters of one of the candidates who was coasting home to victory, stormed other polling units in other faculties including education, to hijack ballot materials amid gunshots by some suspected cultists.

“After the announcement was made by Dr. Brown, students from the polling unit moved to disrupt elections going on at other nearby polling units because of what they viewed as orchestrated plans to stop a non-indigene from emerging as the next SUG President”, Effiong Akpan, a member of the institution’s Faculty of Arts, explained.
“Ballot boxes and other election materials were destroyed at the Faculty of Arts Polling Unit, Faculty of Education and extended to other polling units including the Faculties of Agriculture, Business Administration, Basic Medicals,” he added.

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According to him, attackers were, however repelled by angry students, who countered the invaders with stones and other missiles.
At the Annex Campus along Ikpa Road, a student was reportedly stabbed and eventually rushed to the hospital, while another student, who simply identified herself as Mercy of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, complained that “my digital camera was destroyed during the chaos”.
To restore peace on the campus, the Vice Chancellor, Essien, a professor of Commercial Law, according to the Chief Security Officer (CSO) of the institution, Lt. Col. N. F. Efik (rtd), has ordered the cancellation of the disputed SUG poll.

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