…The torture was being executed by the agents of the Adamawa State Governor and the Government house police team alongside their political thugs…
…In the past I have won elections into the House of Representatives and the Senate in a free and fair manner, why now?…
…Even more curious is the nocturnal visit of the same INEC national officers to Adamawa State Government house and bizarre declaration the same day after the visit that they have taken over the collation through the backdoor, with collation and returning Officers selected by the Adamawa sitting Governor…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, Governorship Candidate, Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed, a.k.a Binani, who was declared by the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner as the Governor Elect for Adamawa state, has denied the allegation under torture and at gunpoint, “purportedly made by an officer of the DSS to the effect that I senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed (Binani) gave out the Sum of N2 Billion Naira to procure a favourable declaration as governor -elect to some unnamed INEC staff”.
Binani, who would not need to spend money for mandate said as a democrat who won elections for the red and green chambers of the national assembly and won the party primary election for the governorship with a wide margin without money being involved to lure the electoral officers would have no need buying for the God’s given position that she was called upon to serve.
“What happened in Adamawa was an unsuccessful attempt to subvert the will of the people. The REC was illegally told to stand down by two INEC national commissioners from Abuja who were supposed to be in Adamawa in a supervisory capacity,” she said.
Instead of submitting to the unfounded, made out of duress allegation to fulfill the interest of the desperados deploying propaganda to seek for sympathy, Binani threw challenge that “the roles of these INEC officers from Abuja and the real mission of the two to the Government house should be of interest to all democrats”.
Read below the full text of the press statement:
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 effect that I senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed (Binani) gave out the Sum of N2Billion Naira to procure a favourable declaration as governor -elect to some unnamed INEC staff. I NEVER DID, I would never do such.
This said statement was allegedly made when the officer was being tortured at gunpoint by the agents of the Adamawa State Governor and the Government house police team alongside their political thugs.
I wish to reiterate that I am a democrat, I have always been a committed democrat and will never do anything to subvert democratic process. I am not a do-or-die politician. In the past I have won elections into the House of Representatives and the Senate in free and fair manner.
What happened in Adamawa was an unsuccessful attempt to subvert the will of the people. The REC was illegally told to stand down by two INEC national commissioners from Abuja who were supposed to be in Adamawa in a supervisory capacity. Even more curious is the nocturnal visit of the same INEC national officers to Adamawa State Government house and bizarre declaration same day after the visit that they have taken over the collation through the backdoor, with collation and returning Officers selected by the Governor Adamawa.
The roles of these INEC officers from Abuja and the real mission of the two to the Government house should be of interest to all democrats. I urge all lovers of democracy to take a deeper interest in our electoral process and democracy not only in Adamawa but in the whole country.
Meanwhile to all my supporters both within and outside Adamawa, I wish to use this opportunity to thank you for your unflinching support, in the mist of half-truths and opposition smear propaganda.
Thank you.