The presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, is cross about the award of contract to Adamawa State All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The latter had through its National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, admitted its awarded contract to Binani Printing Press Limited, but it has nothing to do with sensitive materials.
The electoral body also added that the APC chieftain was not listed as one of the Directors of Binani Printing Press Limited.
A claim that later turned out to be false following a search at Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC. It revealed her as the owner. And in her turn, she remarked that she long relinquished her interest in the company.
Atiku, weighing in on the matter through his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, said both defences lacked merit.
Shaibu pronounced INEC leadership as a failure whose interest is not to conduct a free and fair election.
Some of his words, “Ordinary search on CAC’s portal by youths on Twitter has already revealed that Senator Binani owns Binani Printing Press Limited, a firm that was given a contract to print sensitive INEC materials. The company with RC 310024, which was registered on March 13, 1997 has Senator Aishatu Ahmed listed as number one.
“It is obvious that Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has no plan of leaving a legacy of free and fair elections. With barely a year left on his tenure, his performance as INEC chairman will become a by-word for failure. This is a man who has received the highest financial allocation ever and yet cannot still run the agency effectively and deliver a credible election.
‘It is funny that INEC claims it awarded the contract to Binani’s company in order to stimulate the local economy. One wonders whether it is the duty of INEC to stimulate the economy or conduct credible elections.”
Speaking further: “Recall that in the run-up to the 2019 presidential election, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, admitted that the commission indeed awarded a contract to Act Technologies Limited to print Permanent Voter Cards.
“Act Technologies, whose Managing Director, Mohammed Sani Musa, was APC candidate for Niger East Senatorial District at the time, went on to win that election.
“Despite all these complaints, INEC still insisted on awarding him a contract.”
