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Hudu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/10\/27\/court-okays-prosecution-of-suspended-adamawa-rec-hudu-yunusa-ari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yunusa Ari<\/a>, Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner and Professor Ikemefuna Chijioke Uzochukwu, Abia State Resident Electoral Commissioner respectively.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cAware that the aforementioned Resident Commissioners were earlier suspended in 2023, bordering on allegations of infractions of the Electoral Act; compromise of elections and abandonment of duty without cogent reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A copy of the motion sighted by DAILY POST on Wednesday revealed that the Office of the National Security Adviser, NSA, and the Department of State Services, DSS, indicted Dr. Nura Ali in their reports, having confessed to corruption, incompetence and receiving bribe to the tune of $150,000 from politicians.<\/p>\n<p>According, the plenary which was presided by the Senate President, Godswill Obot 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