INEC also voided the announcement of Binani as the winner of the governorship election, saying it is null and void.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has invited the Adamawa Resident Electoral Officer, Hudu Yunusa and some others for questioning over the declaration of Aishatu Dahiru Binani of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the governorship election in the state.
INEC also voided the announcement of Binani as the winner of the governorship election, saying it is null and void.
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It was earlier reported the declaration of Binani as the winner of the poll, even before the completion of the collation of results.
The INEC REC, Yunusa, announced Binani as the winner, even when the resumption of the collation of results scheduled for 11 am on Sunday had yet to start.
This announcement was not done by the returning officer, as provided by the Electoral Act.
Yunusa allocated 221,303 votes to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate and the incumbent governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri.
The figures allocated to Fintiri represent a 50 per cent shortfall of his initial score of over 400,000 votes.
But INEC, in a statement on its official Twitter handle shortly after the announcement of Binani as the winner of the election, said, “The REC, Returning Officer and all involved are hereby invited to the Commission’s Headquarters in Abuja immediately.”
It described the action of the REC as the “usurpation of the power of the Returning Officer”.
“It is null, void and of no effect,” the statement issued by Barr. Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner, Information & Voter Education, said.
It further said, “The attention of the Commission has been drawn to a purported declaration of winner in the Adamawa Governorship election by the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) even when the process has clearly not been concluded.”
“Consequently, the collation of results of the supplementary election is hereby suspended.”
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