BREAKING: Suspended Adamawa REC, Ari Missing – INEC

The National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Festus Okoye has said the whereabouts of the suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner of Adamawa State, Hudu Ari has been unknown is after his disreputable action during the supplementary governorship election in the state.

“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,” Okoye said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Friday.

VerseNews Nigeria reported that Ari took an unconstitutional decision by announcing the supplementary governorship election results in Adamawa State on Sunday while collation was not yet concluded.

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Festus also said the Ari alongside other suspect will be prosecuted once the police concludes investigation on the issue.

“We wrote to the Inspector General of Police and Secretary to the Government of the Federation. We have received a response from the Inspector General of Police and they have already commenced an investigation.

“My understanding is that the moment the Inspector General of Police concludes the investigation regarding the REC and every other individual who is involved and a prima facie case is established against the REC the file will be made available to the commission and the commission will begin prosecution of the REC,” he added.