2023: Suspended Adamawa REC on the run - INEC raises strong alarm

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday, April 21, said that the suspended Adamawa state's Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu Yunusa Ari, has disappeared without a trace.

Daily Trust reports that Yunusa Ari is currently on the run after he was suspended by the commission for illegally declaring Aisha Binani of the All Progressives Congress the winner of the governorship election in Adamawa state while collation was still ongoing.

Speaking on Yunusa Ari's disappearance, INEC's national commissioner, Festus Okoye who spoke on Channels Television said the electoral body is unaware of the suspended REC's whereabouts.

He added that the commission, immediately after the incident in Adamawa had written and called Yunusa Ari on phone but had not received a single response from him.

Okoye's words: “We don’t know where he is because, after this particular incident, the Commission wrote him and also called him on the phone. He never returned any of the calls, he never answered any of the calls.

“We asked him to report to the Commission on Sunday we didn’t see him, we asked him to report on Monday we didn’t see him. So up till this moment, he has not reported and we don’t know his whereabouts.”