Benue South APC Primary: Collation officer petitions police over alleged fake result

Dr Peter Sani Ochijele, the collation officer for the APC senatorial primary election in Benue South held on May 18, 2026, has petitioned the police to investigate allegations of a fake election result. Through his lawyers, Ochijele submitted a petition to the Benue State Police Commissioner, demanding an investigation into alleged alterations in the result sheet and a signature purportedly bearing his name.

Ochijele contested the official declaration of Dr Francis Ottah Agbo as the winner of the election, which he stated was based on incorrect figures. He alleged that Hon. Nelson Godwin Onyilokwu Alapa, who won the election, scored only 4,312 votes, contrary to the alleged 24,788 votes attributed to him in the disputed document.

Ochijele denied appending his signature to the controversial result sheet and urged the police to authenticate it and compare it with the original election documents. His lawyers emphasized that their client did not recognize the disputed document as an authentic record of the election he supervised. The petition called for a thorough probe into the production and presentation of the disputed document, and a verification of the authenticity of both result sheets.