The whereabouts of suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Adamawa State, Hudu Yunusa-Ari, remained unknown since Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) summoned him to Abuja.
Yunusa-Ari was summoned after he declared Aishat Dahiru Binani of All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of governorship supplementary poll in Adamawa. At the time, results of some local council were yet to be collated.
INEC National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, during a program — Sunrise Daily — on Channels Television said: “We don’t know where he is because, after this particular incident, the Commission wrote him and also called him on the phone. He never returned any of the calls, he never answered any of the calls.
“We asked him to report to the Commission on Sunday we didn’t see him, we asked him to report on Monday we didn’t see him. So up till this moment, he has not reported and we don’t know his whereabouts.”
Okoye stated that it’s the responsibility of the police to declare Ari wanted.
He added: “Well, that is the responsibility of the Nigerian police. If they feel that his presence is absolutely needed during the investigation and he is nowhere to be found, it is their prerogative and discretion to declare him wanted.”
