Supplementary Election: PDP Piles Pressure on INEC as Calls for Adamawa REC’s Arrest Heightens

• The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is under immense pressure over the outcome of the Adamawa supplementary poll
• The PDP, in a statement, urged the Nigeria Police Force to arrest the INEC commissioner, who they accused of compromising the election
• Furthermore, it was alleged that N2 billion had been paid as a bribe to compromise the election

FCT, Abuja - Following the controversial outcome of the Adamawa state supplementary gubernatorial election on Sunday, April 16, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for the immediate arrest of Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Mallam Hudu Yunusa Ari.

As reported by the Nigerian Tribune, the call was made by the PDP's publicity secretary, Debo Ologunagba, during a press briefing in Abuja on Sunday, April 16.

He also revealed that concrete information reaching the camp of the PDP has confirmed that the sum of N2 billion bribe was made to compromise the election.

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Ologunagba said the INEC REC should be apprehended:

“for making a such illegal declaration in criminal usurpation of the duties and powers of the Returning Officer, Prof Mohammed Mele, while collation was ongoing.”

He further described the actions of the INEC REC as violence against the PDP and the people of Adamawa, Premium Times reported.

The PDP publicity secretary further noted that only if Governor Ahmadu Fintiri is declared winner would the tension in the state be doused for good.

As reported by The Nation, he said:

“When you continue to provoke the emotions of people and begin to disregard their feelings, people who went up to the wards and polling units to vote and they voted and then somebody takes it away, what violence can be more than that?

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“Violence to their conscience, violence to their integrity, violence to their own sensibilities. I think this must stop.

“We are calling on INEC right now to conclude Adamawa supplementary election and declare the candidate that had won, the Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri.”

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In another development, more controversial conversations continue to lurk around the supplementary polls in Adamawa state.

Being a stronghold of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the All Progressives Congress (APC) is fighting tooth and nail to annex it.

Meanwhile, a man identified as Kawu Garba says he does not want the candidate of the APC to win the governorship seat.

Source: Legit.ng