IGP Removes Adamawa CP Over Guber Supplementary Polls ….As INEC Declares Fintiri Winner

The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, has ordered that the Commissioner of Police on election duty in Adamawa State, Mohammed Barde, withdraw from the state with immediate effect.
The IGP also ordered that the CP in charge of Gombe State, Etim Equa, should immediately proceed to Adamawa State for election security of the keenly contested supplementary governorship poll.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made the revelation while addressing pressmen in Abuja, yesterday, adding that the IG was committed to a free and fair electoral process.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Ahmadu Fintiri, has emerged winner of the supplementary governorship election in Adamawa State.
As announced by Professor Mohammed Mele the state Returning Officer, Fintiri who is the incumbent governor of the state scored a total of 430, 861 votes to defeat the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Aisha Binani who got 396,788.
Recall that INEC had on Sunday suspended collation for the supplementary governorship election in Adamawa after the embattled Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu Yunusa Ari announced APC’s Aisha as the winner the Saturday supplementary election.
Ari’s declaration was contrary to Section 25 of the Electoral Act, 2022 which empowers only the returning officer to announce the result and declare the winner of an election at the state collation centre in the case of election of a governor of a state.
Earlier, officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had reconvened at the state collation centre in Yola, the Adamawa State capital.
The officials reconvened amid a heavy presence of security operatives.
INEC Administrative Secretary in the State, Adamu Gujungu, who has been mandated to take the place of the erring Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu Yunusa Ari, was seen at the collation centre.
Yesterday, INEC said it would write the Inspector General of Police, Baba Ahmed, to investigate and prosecute the suspended REC.
The commission reached the decision at the technical meeting attended by its national commissioners in Abuja, yesterday.
INEC also decided to write the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, to brief President Muhammadu Buhari about the action of the REC.