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APC Government Officials Are Hand-Picking INEC Ad-Hoc Staff. Adamawa IPAC Cries Out | Jehu's Blog
The Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Adamawa state chapter has cried fowl, accusing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of conniving with the ruling APC to recruit ad-hoc staff for the forthcoming general elections. IPAC raised the alarm in Yola on Thursday, alleging that the electoral umpire was “making desperate moves to rig the poll in favor of the ruling All Progressives Congress”. Tahir Shehu, IPAC Chairman of the state chapter, said “it has come to our notice that political officer holders in the APC government are submitting lists of ad-hoc staff, for the conduct of the 2019 general elections”. Tahir, who doubles as Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said he was reacting to information at his disposal, that the APC had allegedly concluded arrangement to recruit most of the adhoc staff for the conduct of the forthcoming elections. He however called on President Muhammadu Buhari, the chairman of INEC, Prof. Yakubu Mohammed to call the Adamawa State resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), to order, stressing, “he should not to be allowed to plunge the state into chaos”. “Another electoral crisis will not augur well for anybody”, he added. “We have gathered that APC members are collaborating with INEC officials to submit the lists of adhoc …