Mohammed Musa
Mahmood Yakubu, national chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC), has confirmed that one of the candidates of
the All Progressives Congress is a contractor to the commission, a
report by TheCable has revealed.
Addressing stakeholders on the reason behind the postponement of
the presidential and parliamentary elections in Abuja on Saturday, the
INEC chairman said the contractor’s political inclination will not
affect the commission.
The contractor in question is Mohammed Musa (pictured), APC’s candidate for the Niger east senatorial district seat.
“Yes, I am aware. That company has been working with the commission since 2011. I assure you that we have a strict system,”
he responded to a question by Osita Chidoka, former aviation minister
who represented Uche Secondus, national chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party, at the meeting.
“No electoral officer will be compromised. The integrity of the process is protected.”
In an earlier statement released by the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, its
presidential candidate, had said that Musa’s company, ‘Activate
Technologies Limited’, was saddled with supplying the machines used in
printing the permanent voter cards (PVCs).
“While Sani Musa has the right to hold any public office in
spite of his line of business, it is morally unjustifiable to allow a
well-known supplier of sensitive INEC materials to partake in an
election in which the key materials to be used for the poll were
supplied by him,” Atiku was quoted to have said in the statement.
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