In order to rig the election in favor of Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, claims of meetings with INEC officials sent to Adamawa State for the governorship rerun have been denied.

The denial was made by the INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye in a statement on Thursday.

“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.

“Ordinarily, the Commission does not join issues with partisan actors, particularly where no evidence has been provided

“To set the record straight, no such visit or meeting took place let alone the compilation of any purported list of collation and returning officers.

“Such a meeting would have been contrary to the oath of neutrality that we all swore to.

“Moreover, every conscientious observer would have noticed that the Commission appointed and retained only one Returning Officer for the Governorship election who also doubled as the State Collation Officer for the Presidential Election (SCOPE).

“Like all Returning Officers nationwide, he was issued with a letter of appointment by the Commission and the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Adamawa State was duly informed.

“The list of Collation Officers was also forwarded to the State with every page of the list personally endorsed by the Chairman of the Commission well ahead of the arrival of the National Commissioners”, he said.

INEC Responds To Reports Of Meeting Officials To Rig Adamawa Polls

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