Senator Aishatu Dahiru, also known as Binani, is running for governor of Adamawa State on the platform of the All Progressives Congress. She has refuted claims that she paid INEC employees, including Resident Electoral Commissioner Hudu Yunusa Ari, to declare her the winner of the election.
According to reports, Ari declared Binani the election’s victor on Sunday by acting in place of the state’s INEC returning officer. Following the announcement, INEC had halted the results’ collation process and expelled the REC.
Hours after Ari announced Binani as the winner, a fictitious video of him appeared online, purporting to show the INEC REC admitting to taking a N2 billion bribe.
Ari might be seen in the video speaking under duress while partially undressed and with blood on his mouth.
Binani, however, refuted providing anyone a N2 billion bribe to subvert the political process in a statement on Tuesday.
A Department of State Services officer, according to her, made “very bizarre, unfounded wild allegations” against her, she claimed.