BREAKING: Suspended Adamawa INEC Commissioner, Yunusa-Ari Lands In Fresh Trouble
The arraignment of suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Barrister Hudu Ari Yunusa, by the Adamawa State High Court of Justice has been scheduled for November 6, 2023.
The arraignment was initially set for July 27, 2023, but delayed due to the REC’s failure to appear in court, while Justice Benjamin Manji Lawan thereafter adjourned the case for the third time.
However, the court set October 23, 2023, in order to enable the electoral umpire to arraign its suspended officer for alleged electoral offences.
Hudu has been facing charges which include announcing false electoral results, breaching his oath of neutrality, disorderly conduct during elections, inciting disturbance, and personating a public servant.
Naija News House had reported how Hudu Yunusa-Ari suspended for violating the provision of the Electoral Act, 2022 was flown out of Yola, the state capital, in a private jet.
This followed a supplementary governorship election held in the state on Saturday.
Yunusa-Ari had declared Binani as the winner of the poll even though the collation of results of the supplementary election had yet to be completed.
He bizarrely allocated 221,303 votes to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate and the incumbent governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, which represented a 50 per cent shortfall from his initial 400,000 votes.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, however, swiftly nullified the announcement and invited the REC to its headquarters in Abuja.
