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A statement released on Sunday by the Adamawa Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), signed by its Chairman, Hon. Bello Babajo is totally out of line with its responsibility and role, as a body that offers advisories to political parties.  We find the statement laced with a hidden motive as well as designed to threaten the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. mahmoud Yakubu using a common and over flogged bait.  Why would the Adamawa IPAC chairman weaponise violence in his statement? What is the essence of suggesting a break down of law and order in a bid to frighten INEC towards carrying out its bidding? We advise Bello Babajo to restrain himself and Adamawa IPAC from creating an atmosphere that will suggest unrest. We believe that INEC should be allowed to carry out its constitutional mandate as stipulated by law without any undue influence and pressure.  Babajo and his Adamawa IPAC can go ahead and advise INEC on what they opine, with...

The Inter Party Advisory Council Adamawa State has called on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to remove the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Barr. Hudu Yunusa Ari. The Chairman of the council,  Hon Bello Babajo, made the call during a press conference at the Nigeria Union of Journalists(NUJ) press center in Yola, on Thursday. He told newsmen that the council found it necessary to call for the removal of the commissioner and bring someone whose intergrity will not be tempered with in the line of his duty. "Today we feel it is necessary to make this press briefing because of the contradictory statement through the leaked audio going round that the INEC Commissioner Adamawa was heard communicating with some of his staff to help rig the election in favour of one political party". He stated. According to him, the 1999 Constitution gives INEC powers to conduct election and declare winners, but such statement from the C...

The Inter Party Advisory Council Adamawa State has called on the Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to remove the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Barr. Hudu Yunusa Ari. NEWS PLATFORM. The Chairman of the council, Hon Bello Babajo, made the call during a press conference at the Nigeria Union of Journalists(NUJ) press center in Yola, on Thursday. He told newsmen that the council found it necessary to call for the removal of the commissioner and bring someone whose intergrity will not be tempered with in the line of his duty. "Today we feel it is necessary to make this press briefing because of the contradictory statement through the leaked audio going round that the INEC Commissioner Adamawa was heard communicating with some of his staff to help rig the election in favour of one political party". He stated. According to him, the 1999 Constitution gives INEC powers to conduct election and declare winners, but such statement fro...

The Court of Appeal sittting in Yola, Adamawa state on Thursday, ordered for immediate reinstatement of Hon. Joseph Ayuba Kwada, to his seat as member representing Michika constituency at the House of Assembly. NEWS PLATFORM. The court ordered that Hon. Kwada(Depolis) who was sacked by the House of Assembly on the 27th April, 2022, be reinstated to enable him complete his 4 year tenure expected to end in June, 2023. It further ordered the state government to settle all the salaries and other financial emoluments and all other entitlements due to him as member of the Assembly since April last year to date. Hon. Justice Muhammed Lawal Abubakar, of the appellate court issued the orders while delivering judgement in an appeal instituted by Hon. Depolis. Justice Lawal reversed the removal of the legislator for lack fair hearing, saying that the Assembly and its Speaker, Rt. Hon. Aminu Iya Abbas, have breached the fundamental rights to fair hearing guaranteed to the appellant by the 1999 Con...

The Court of Appeal sittting in Yola, Adamawa state on Friday, ordered for immediate reinstatement of Hon. Joseph Ayuba Kwada, to his seat as member representing Michika constituency at the House of Assembly. NEWS PLATFORM. The court ordered that Hon. Kwada(Depolis) who was sacked by the House of Assembly on the 27th April, 2022, be reinstated to enable him complete his 4 year tenure expected to end in June, 2023. It further ordered the state government to settle all the salaries and other financial emoluments and all other entitlements due to him as member of the Assembly since April last year to date. Hon. Justice Muhammed Lawal Abubakar, of the appellate court issued the orders while delivering judgement in an appeal instituted by Hon. Depolis. Justice Lawal reversed the removal of the legislator for lack fair hearing, saying that the Assembly and its Speaker, Rt. Hon. Aminu Iya Abbas, have breached the fundamental rights to fair hearing guaranteed to the appellant by the 1999 Const...

The Gubernatorial Candidate of the People's Redemption Party (PRP) in Adamaw State, Lieutenant Commander Ibrahim Baba-Inna (RTD), has called on both Christians and Muslims to pray for a peaceful conclusion of the forthcoming governorship election slated for Saturday, April 15th, 2023. The 18th March, 2023 governorship election was declared inconclusive by the INEC after it had ruled that the cancelled votes were more than the margin of victory between the top contenders. In a press statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday,  Ibrahim Baba-Inna, enjoined Christians who are in the season of lent and Muslims who are observing the Ramadan fast to pray for the peaceful conduct of the supplementary election. He emphasized the need for every individual to place Adamawa State first before any party interest, and to ensure that a peaceful, violence-free supplementary election is held. "I call  on all parties to play politics with decorum and a strict observation of the electoral ...

Adamawa State Commissioner of Police, CP Afolabi Babatola Adeniyi, has faulted a claim over threat to life by the Resident Electoral Commissioner(REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), Adamawa State, Hudu Yunusa Ari. He urged the REC and the electoral body to concentrate and do what is right as the command has deployed all measures to ensure the protection of lives of staff, properties/ equipment of INEC before, during and after the coming supplementary elections. CP Afolabi, in a statement by the PPRO of the Command, SP Sulaiman Yahaya Nguroje, and made available to newsmen on Friday, observed with dismay the alarm raised by the REC, alleging threat to life. According to the statement, the CP has deployed the Command’s operational asset around INEC facilities for surveillance operations to checkmate criminal activities around it, as a further manifestation of the IGP’s determination in providing conducive atmosphere for political process in the state. He said tha...