All National Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are currently in a closed-door meeting at the commission’s national headquarters in Abuja.
This is coming barely 24 hours after the electoral umpire directed its Resident Electoral Commissioner in Adamawa State, Hudu Yunusa Ari, to stay away from all activities of the electoral umpire and the election in the state
Recall that Ari went rogue midway into the coalition of Adamawa governorship supplementary poll by declaring candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Senator Aisha Binani Dahiru, as winner of the election.
At the time Ari usurped the authority of the Adamawa Returning Officer, Prof Muhammed Mele, to declare Binani winner of the poll, her rival, Governor Ahmadu Fintiri was leading in the vote count.
Binani has filed a motion exparte before the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from nullifying her declaration as winner of the governorship elections held on March 18 and the supplementary poll of April 15.
Senator Binani is also seeking an order of prohibition and certiorari preventing INEC and its agents from taking any further steps towards the declaration of the winner of the elections pending the determination of her application for judicial review.