As he embarks on another campaign to defend the illegality perpetuated by the Compromise REC in Adamawa Hudu Yunusa Ari, Abbo delivered another CPAC doozy Monday morning.

Abbo’s lengthy contribution to the TV programme to address the legality of Binani’s declaration by the rogue REC was filled with wildly inaccurate claims about his own party and candidature, the participation of the Vice Chancellor, MAO, Yola, the Furfore result, and other subjects.

Here is a fact check on several of the false claims Abbo made. (And that’s far from the total.)

non-use of BVAS and voter suppression

While responding to a question put to Abbo about his observation of the governorship polls in Adamawa, he claimed that “PDP bypassed BVAS in the area where they are strong and also suppressed votes of the APC and chased away their agent.”

The Fufore Result 

Talking about the Fufore result, Abbo claimed APC was winning with 37,000 votes, and the chairman of the local government sent someone to snatch the result sheets and tear them, then added, “They chased out our supporters, and the governor drove in the presence of the former commissioner of police and declared the result at the police station.”

Facts first: This is a reversal of reality. According to accreditation data obtained from INEC, the total accredited data stands at over 52,000; if APC got 37,000 votes, then PDP votes in Fufore have been suppressed to 7,000 votes; in the fraudulent result bandit by APC, Binani got 37,000 and PDP got 7,000; when you add the figures, then their claim falls flat; Second, Fintiri did not drive to Fufore nor announce the result there; it was the returning officer of the local government that resisted the rogue REC request to help the woman; his refusal led to the result sheet snatching by an agent of the APC, not the PDP, whose refusal led to the result sheet been snatched, INEC, in its wisdom, decided to download the results from the IREV rather than rely on the results presented by all parties, and the final result was 24000 vs. 20,000 between Binani and Fintiri. 

Abbo has repeatedly made the false claim that APC won Fufore with 37,000 votes.

Abbo also claims there were security reports from the DSS of impending danger, which is why INEC delays the distribution of sensitive material till election day, and that the Vice Chancellor of Abbo also claims there were security reports from the DSS of impending danger, which is why INEC delays the distribution of sensitive material till election day, and that the Vice Chancellor of Modi’ibo Adamawa University is an appointee of the governor, and most of the university staff that work for INEC in an ad hoc capacity were influenced by Tukur

Facts first: Abbo’s claim is false. Tukur is not an appointee of the governor of Adamawa state, and there is no evidence nor complaint by the commission that MAO staffs that work with INEC in an ad hoc capacity compromise any election. According to the information we gather, Tukur rejects INEC’s proposal for him to work as a returning officer in Bauchi, an appointment he turns down. In fact, it was the bravery of the MAO university staff that saved the commission from the cooked 37,000 votes from Fufore. 

Abbo has not provided any evidence that Prof. Tukur influenced the posting of MAO staff to INEC duty. Rather, the commission wrote to the registrar of MAO requesting staff that would work in an ad hoc capacity for the commission. Governor Fintiri did not force the returning officer of Fufore to announce any result, as claimed by Abbo.

Binani’s illegal declaration

Abbo claimed, “The resident electoral commissioner called the returning officer on Sunday morning, but the RO was nowhere to be found, and that is why the rogue REC usurped the power of the RO in the illegal declaration saga.”

Facts first: This is a major exaggeration. Abbo is not a staff member of the commission to know what had transpired between the REC and the RO, but still, the REC suspended the collation to 11 a.m. the next day, only for the REC to smuggle into the collation centre prior to the agreed resumption time to declare Binani the winner while the process was still on and without any result sheet but a handwritten document that was different from the result earlier collated.

According to the confession of a man who was identified as DSS staff, the rogue REC took 2 billion naira from the APC to declare Binani the winner by hook or by crook, and it was discovered that the returning officer who refused the dirty bidding was blacklisted by the rogue REC and his power was usurped by the REC due to financial inducement.