PDP Governors inform INEC: Weed out corrupt officials

Governors elected on the platform of PDP has strongly condemned what they described because the present of disgrace in Adamawa State on the April 18 supplementary Governorship election and known as for the prosecution of the Resident Electoral Commissioner.

The governors in a press release on Monday by the Director Common of PDP Governors Forum (PDP-GF), Hon. CID Maduabum mentioned that the tried electoral heist and brigandage perpetrated by the Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Barrister Hudu Yunusa, was the bottom level of the 2023 Common elections.

The governors whereas commending the steps taken by the INEC by suspending the REC, identified that the method of the appointments of National and Resident Electoral Commissioners have to be revisited to weed out corrupt and very partisan officers

The governors mentioned, “We commend the instant steps taken by the INEC as an establishment to get well its battered picture by nullifying the   tried coup and suspending the REC.

“The suitable Returning Officer, Mele Lamido, ought to instantly conclude the collation and declare the end result.

“One of the vital necessary classes of this election season is that the integrity of INEC personnel  is crucial to free, truthful, and credible elections in addition to deployment of know-how.

“Going ahead, there ought to be a deliberate strategy of revisiting the appointments of Nationwide and Resident Electoral Commissioners to weed out corrupt and very partisan officers. It’s the partisan technique of appointment of those officers that led to national shame in Adamawa State.

“Applicable sanctions, together with prosecution of all these concerned, particularly the previous Resident Electoral Commissioner, Barrister Hudu Yunusa, ought to be swiftly commenced to serve for example to others”.

They enjoined all Nigerians to be on alert and brace as much as rising threats to democracy and the battle for good governance in Nigeria.