Fleeing Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission's (INEC), in Adamawa State, Hudu Yunusa-Ari, has denied the allegation that he received a bribe of N2billion to announce the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Aishatu Dahiru Binani, as the winner of the governorship election in the state.
Yunusa-Ari, who announced Binani winner of the election while collation was yet to be completed has been widely accused of receiving N2 billion bribe from the APC governorship candidate.
The INEC however nullified Yunusa-Ari's announcement and declared the incumbent Governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner of the election.
But speaking in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service monitored by Vanguard on Tuesday, Yunusa-Ari said he had no regrets whatsoever about the action he took by making the announcement in the middle of the election.
Yunusa-Ari, who the police were looking for, described the N2 billion bribe as a social media hype, insisting that announcing the result was his responsibility which was backed by law.
The embattled REC said that he was ready to present himself to the police this week, and argued that neither the Department of State Services (DSS) nor the Nigerian police came searching for him as was widely discussed.
He said, "I never said the governor bribed anyone, but I knew there were allegations.
“I swear, I had nothing to do with either Binani or Fintiri. All these stories about the N2 billion bribe were social media hype.
”I have no regrets whatsoever, when you do something that was allowed to be done in a democracy, there are no regrets.”