Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has made a case for the prosecution of people who willfully perpetuate electoral fraud anywhere in the country.
Fintiri, who was evidently still unable to come to terms at how his opponent in the last election was declared winner when the electoral process was not yet concluded, said in a statewide broadcast on Monday that such brazen act should not go unpunished.
Fintiri, who said the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was unbiased in its conduct of the elections of last year, however took strong exception to its suspended resident electoral commissioner during the election in Adamawa, Hudu Ari-Yunusa, whose suspension was announced by the Commission after he usurped the function of the returning officer and prematurely declared a winner.
“As for those who connived with the REC to make us pass through those democratically embarrassing moments, I want to assure you once again, that we owe it a duty to prosecute all of them according to the dictates of the law,” Fintiri said in his broadcast Monday afternoon.
“This is the only way we can protect our electoral process and democratic culture from undue abuse,” the governor added.