From Fred Ezeh, Abuja
A civil society organisation (CSO), Accountability and Democratic Project (ADEP), has written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) requesting that the Bauchi governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Abubakar Baba, be disqualified from participating in the 2023 governorship election.
The reason, according to the group, was because it identified irregularities in the EC 9 form submitted to INEC by the candidate, stressing that Baba filed in incomplete information and withheld important credentials that should be part and parcel of his EC 9 form submitted to INEC.
It said cursory look at the EC 9 form submitted by Baba indicated that the candidate claimed he was born in Azare, Bauchi State, but did not supply the remaining part of the information as requested.
“He also claimed to had attended St. Paul’s Primary School and finished in 1973, and also graduated from a school he never supplied in the EC 9 form. Curiously, however, the candidate did not annex documents to prove all the claims that are vital to his overall credentials,” it said, in the letter addressed to INEC Chairman, Mahmud Yakubu, and signed by the Executive Director of the organisation, Ahmad Muhammad.