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FCT, Abuja – Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed (Binani), the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the just concluded Adamawa Governorship election, has denied giving an N2 billion bribe to controversial Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hudu Yunusa-Ari.
Recall that Ari, in a dramatic move, declared Binani as the governor-elect on Sunday, April 16, while the collation of the guber poll results was still ongoing and in the absence of the returning officer who has the constitutional rights to do so, The Nation reported.
According to her, an operative of the Department of State Service (DSS) was tortured by some thugs, agents of the state government and the police in the government house police are behind the allegations against her.
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She maintained that she remained a Democrat that would never do anything to revert a democratic process.
The outgoing senator, in a statement on Tuesday, April 18, stressed that she won her House of Representatives and the Senate via a free and fair election.
Her statement reads in part: “My attention has been drawn to a very bizarre, unfounded wild allegations purportedly made by an officer of the Department of State Services to the effort that, I senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed (Binani) gave out the sum of N2billion to procure a favourable declaration as governor-elect to some unnamed INEC staff. I never did; I would never do such.”
