The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has denounced a report that its officials deployed to supervise the Adamawa State governorship rerun paid a nocturnal visit to the state’s Government House ostensibly to rig the polls for incumbent, Governor Ahmadu Fintiri.
INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, made the denial in a statement on Thursday.
He said: “The attention of the Commission has been drawn to a press statement by a candidate in the recently-concluded Adamawa State governorship election in which officials deployed for legitimate duty in the state were alleged to have undermined the electoral process after a discreet ‘nocturnal’ visit to the Government House and ostensibly met with one of the candidates in the election, who gave them a list of ‘collation and returning officers’ deployed for the election.
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