{"id":355237,"date":"2025-02-09T14:52:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T13:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=355237"},"modified":"2025-02-09T14:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T13:52:47","slug":"apc-won-adamawa-guber-poll-i-was-coerced-into-declaring-fintiri-winner-dismissed-adamawa-rec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2025\/02\/09\/apc-won-adamawa-guber-poll-i-was-coerced-into-declaring-fintiri-winner-dismissed-adamawa-rec\/","title":{"rendered":"APC won Adamawa guber poll, I was coerced into declaring Fintiri winner \u2013 Dismissed Adamawa REC"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>This is even as he disclosed that the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani, rightfully won the election and he has evidence to back up his claim.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The dismissed Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2025\/01\/31\/tinubus-economic-policies-inflicting-pain-hardship-on-nigerians-adamawa-gov-fintiri\/\">Adamawa State<\/a>, Hudu Yunusa-Ari, says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost the 2023 governorship election in the State.<\/p>\n<p>This is even as he disclosed that the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani, rightfully won the election and he has evidence to back up his claim.<\/p>\n<p>Yunusa-Ari revealed that he was coerced and pressured to declare PDP&#8217;s Governor Ahmadu Fintiri the winner of the controversial election.<\/p>\n<p>Yunusa-Ari made the revelation on Saturday in an interview with select journalists in Bauchi.<\/p>\n<p>He alleged that both the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, and the Election Tribunal deliberately shunning evidence of widespread electoral malpractices.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he and other officials were pressured to declare Fintiri the winner under threats to their security.<\/p>\n<p>Swearing by the Holy Qur\u2019an, he insisted that he acted in good faith and followed electoral guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>He also accused INEC\u2019s ICT head in Adamawa, Bala Aji, of compromising the election, alleging that Aji handed over 20,000 sensitive election documents to Governor Fintiri.<\/p>\n<p>He further claimed that the documents were found in a private house linked to the governor, where top government officials were allegedly manipulating them.<\/p>\n<p>Yunusa-Ari also alleged that Aji distributed BVAS machines and bribed INEC staff with foreign currency on election day, calling it a blatant abuse of office.<\/p>\n<p>He lamented that his reports exposing those violations were ignored by INEC headquarters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is even as he disclosed that the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani, rightfully won the election and he has evidence to back up his claim. 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