Justice Nathan Musa of the Adamawa State High Court, Yola has convicted the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC Officers, Ibrahim Umar and Sahabo Hamman for electoral fraud.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Gombe zonal office, arraigned the convicts on a three counts charges bordering on conspiracy, and for corruptly enriching themselves.
They pleaded not guilty to the charges
Ibrahim Umar, a former electoral officer in charge of Yola South Local Government, allegedly conspired with the second convict, Hamman, a retired staff of INEC and representative of West African Network of Election Observers “to withdraw the sum of N370m from Central Bank of Nigeria at a new generation bank, Yola branch.”
The sum of N362m was said to have been released to the convicts.
Harman served as the state coordinator, Adamawa State, during the 2015 presidential election.
Justice Musa who noted that EFCC has been able prove their case beyond reasonable doubt sentenced them to twenty one years’ imprisonment without option of fine.
Source: EFCC
