Political activist, Aisha Yesufu, has accused officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of being bribed to remove the leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

Speaking on Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’, Yesufu alleged that reports indicate that the INEC Chairman was threatened into his action.

Yesufu said this after INEC derecognised former Senate President David Mark as the National Chairman of the ADC.

She said, “There are reports that INEC officials were allegedly bribed with monies up to $50,000, and lands were given. Where is the EFCC and ICPC in all of this?

“The judiciary has turned itself into the plate of corrupt politicians. And that’s not what it should be. You’re having places where houses are being built for them, where all sorts of meetings are going on and stuff like that. Then that’s what worries every one of us.

“My thinking is that one institution should be independent, and if you have institutions that are independent, not the one that you’re hearing people being threatened.

“If there is independence, if there’s accountability, transparency, we don’t have all of these shenanigans going on.

“Let’s all go to court and have whatever it is there, but when you see the institutions, and also the judiciary, have turned themselves into weapon of oppression, willing tool of oppression against opposition parties, then that’s something that worries us, and the democracy of our country.

“This democracy, by the way, many people died for it for us to have what we have today, and we cannot have a few people come and destroy it just because they want to hang on to power that they are not deserving of,” Yesufu stated.