The suspended Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Barr Yunusa Hudu Ari who was in Police custody for three days has been granted bail.
He was arrested after declaring Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the governorship election in Adamawa midway into the collation of results.
But, in a swift reaction, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had overruled and summoned him to Abuja.
Subsequently, INEC wrote to the Inspector-General of Police to demand the REC’s probe and on Tuesday last week, Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi confirmed the arrest of Yunusa-Ari.
In a statement on Friday, Muyiwa Adejobi, Force Public Relations Officer said the suspended REC had been granted administrative bail, and explained that Yunusa-Ari had been asked to report every week.
The statement read in parts: “The Nigeria Police Force hereby confirms that Barr. Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the Suspended Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), who has been in custody for interrogations by the police in the course of investigations into allegations of impropriety during the supplementary gubernatorial polls in the state, has been granted administrative bail by the Police while investigations subsist”.
“He is expected to report at the Police Headquarters every weekday while investigations are ongoing on the matter.”
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