Ahmadu Fintiri, the security aide to Adamawa State Governor, was reportedly arrested and detained at the Department of State Services (DSS) office.
WITHIN NIGERIA learned that the security official was apprehended for allegedly assaulting an Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) official during the just-concluded governorship election in Adawama State.
Following the controversial declaration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate for Adamawa State, Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani, as governor-elect by the now-suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Barrister Hudu Yunusa Ari, a mob forced their way into Green City Hotel in Yola and dragged some INEC officials out of their rooms.
A video clip of one of the two INEC commissioners deployed to oversee the April 15 supplementary governorship election in Adamawa State went viral on social media a few days ago.
The governor’s chief detail, Ahmad Umar, is accused of assaulting the senior officer, Professor Abdullahi Abdu Zuru.
In response to the development, the DSS arrested at least three Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) supporters in various locations across the state for alleged involvement in the attacks.
However, Barrister Tahir Shehu, the state PDP chairman, led a group of party members to protest at the DSS office in Yola yesterday, demanding the release of the three detainees.
We came in this number to register our peaceful protest and demand immediate and unconditional release of our party faithfuls who have been unduly detained for days without being taken to court and we have delivered our official letter to the Director DSS, Adamawa State requesting him to allow those in detention access to their lawyers and to their families because it is unconstitutional for you to detain somebody for more than 24 hours without taking him to court and without giving him access to his family, Shehu said.
Following that, on Thursday (today), a High Court presided over by Justice Christopher Dominic Mapeo issued an order compelling the DSS to unconditionally release the three detainees.
The judge postponed the hearing on the motion on notice until May 3, 2023.
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