The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) in Adamawa State has called on the Chairman of Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Mahmood Yakubu to sack the Resident Electorial Commissioner (REC), for Adamawa State, Barrister Hudu Yunusa.
The council stated that the Nigerian constitution empowered INEC to conduct elections and declare winners.
IPAC however raised concerns over “what is happening in Adamawa State and the contradictive statement through the leaked audio going round that INEC commissioner Barrister Hudu and his staff to help rig the election in favour of a political party”, saying free and fair election may not be achieved.
Briefing newsmen in Yola, the chairman of IPAC in Adamawa State, Belllo Babajo said "With such statement, we have lost confidence that he will be natural in the conduct of the supplementary election, therefore, we call for his immediate sack or removal from the state."
Stressing further, Babajo said that Adamawa State was peaceful and had never experienced any political crisis in the history of political struggles.
Babaji added, "If Barrister Hudu Yunusa is allowed to preside over the Supplementary election on April 15, he will set the state ablaze."
SaharaReporters had on April 5 reported that the Peoples Democratic Party also called for Yunusa’s removal due to alleged result manipulation for the All Progress Congress candidate, Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani.
SaharaReporters had reported how Hudu Yunusa allegedly directed an election official, Hammajam Mohammed, to rig the governorship election in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani.
In the leaked audio obtained by SaharaReporters, Yunusa told Mohammed to do everything humanly possible to make Binani win. He had told the electoral official that he was instructed by a higher authority to make Binani win.
INEC declared the March 18 governorship election in the state inclusive, with the PDP leading with approximately 31,000 votes.
The supplementary election in the state has been scheduled for April 15 by the electoral body.
However, in a statement issued on Tuesday, PDP spokesperson Debo Ologunagba accused the REC of complicity in alleged plots to manipulate the outcome of the state's governorship election.