{"id":294872,"date":"2023-10-27T17:16:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T16:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=294872"},"modified":"2023-10-27T17:16:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T16:16:17","slug":"court-okays-prosecution-of-suspended-adamawa-rec-hudu-yunusa-ari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/10\/27\/court-okays-prosecution-of-suspended-adamawa-rec-hudu-yunusa-ari\/","title":{"rendered":"Court okays prosecution of suspended Adamawa REC Hudu Yunusa-Ari"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Hudu had illegally announced Binani as the winner of the governorship election<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>INEC annulled the declaration and instead returned the incumbent governor, Umar Fintiri<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday struck out the application filed by the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Adamawa State, Senator Aisha Binani Dahiru, seeking to stop the prosecution of Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the suspended Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>Hudu had illegally announced Binani as the winner of the governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) annulled the declaration and instead returned the incumbent governor, Umar Fintiri.<\/p>\n<p>The court had previously given an interim order, directing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/10\/25\/breaking-tinubu-appoints-nine-inec-resident-commissioners-full-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">INEC<\/a>, Attorney-General of the Federation and Inspector General of Police to put on hold the plan to prosecute Yunusa-Ari.<\/p>\n<p>The interim order followed a motion ex parte filed by Binani, who sought the court\u2019s interpretation on whether INEC could charge or arraign Yunusa-Ari when a tribunal sitting was ongoing on the outcome of the gubernatorial election.<\/p>\n<p>INEC, in a statement, claimed findings from police investigations established a prima facie case against Yunusa-Ari.<\/p>\n<p>The commission subsequently filed a six-count charge against the ousted REC at the Adamawa State High Court in Yola.<\/p>\n<p>But Binani urged the court to restrain parties in the interim so that INEC could show cause why Yunusa-Ari, her star witness at the Adamawa gubernatorial election tribunal, should be prosecuted when the proceeding was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>However, in his ruling on Friday, Justice Donatus U. 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