Amid the controversies generated by the ‘fraudulent’ declaration of the Adamawa state governorship election winner by the State’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu Yunusa Ari, checks by THE WHISTLER has revealed that the REC was once indicted in a 16 billion naira fraud during his time as a permanent secretary in the Bauchi State ministry of local government affairs.
Ari had become a national anti-hero after his declaration of Senator Aishatu Dahiru (Binani) as Adamawa State governor-elect while the collation of results was still ongoing, usurping the duties and powers of the Returning Officer, Prof Mohammed Mele.
