Adamawa Guber:  Binani accuses  INEC of frustrating petition at tribunal

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last governorship election in Adamawa State, Sen. Aishatu Binani has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of frustrating her petition at the tribunal.

Binani is at the Adamawa Governorship Election Petition Tribunal challenging the declaration of Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the election.

The former senator alleged that INEC was being biased by disregarding an order of the court and attempting to arrest and detain the suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner,  (REC), Mr Hudu Ari.

She claimed that the plan to arrest Ari was a ploy to prevent him from testifying for her at the ongoing hearing of the tribunal.

She alleged that INEC wanted the suspended REC apprehended and kept out of circulation to make him unavailable as a witness for her.

Briefing newsmen in Abuja on Saturday on behalf of Binani, Alhaji Mustapha Umar-Madawaki, the APC Returning Officer in the March 18 governorship election in the state, and the re-run of April 15,  appealed to Nigerians to call INEC to order.

Umar-Madawaki said that the electoral umpire needed to be called to order to allow the APC candidate to reclaim her mandate freely given to her by the people of Adamawa.

The APC returning officer alleged that at the point of collation of results, INEC-trained ad-hoc workers were changed and mysteriously substituted by another group of staff.

According to him, the result of the unlawful change of ad-hoc workers was the production of different election results from the ones submitted by the authentic workers.

(NAN)