Following police’s failure to serve the hearing notice to Yunusa-Ari.Hudi Yunusa-Ari, the embattled Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), in Adamawa State, the suspended REC on Monday, failed to appear at the State High Court, where he was to be arraigned.
Justice Benjamin Manji of the State High Court ordered INEC to produce him in court during its next sitting on November 23, 2023.
The prosecution counsel to INEC, Justice Rotimi Jacobs, claimed police made several attempts to serve him the hearing notice by visiting his home, but he could not be traced.
Wondering why the police, who granted him bail through a surety, could neither get the defendant nor the surety, the presiding judge, Benjamin Manji, granted the prosecution counsel’s request of two weeks for the defendant to appear before the court.
