The National Chairman of the Action Democratic Party, ADP, Engr. Yabagi Yusuf Sani, has been asked to resign from the position immediately.
A group, Guardian of Democracy and Development Initiative, also called for his suspension and prosecution
reported yesterday that the House of Representatives candidate for Nasarawa Constituency, Kano State, in the 2023 general election, Musa Mohammed Ali, demanded a public apology from Sani, and the National Secretary, Victor Fingesi.
Ali also demanded the withdrawal of a letter which was forwarded to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, which he alleged was attached to a forged death certificate in his name.
According to him, the party chairman and secretary had, prior to the general elections, sent the letter to INEC, notifying the Commission of his replacement, claiming he was dead.
The group, in a press conference addressed by Comrade Danesi Momoh Prince, its convener, in the presence of the candidates whose death certificates were allegedly forged, Muhammad Ali and Nafiu Haruna, demanded that the party Chairman should be prosecuted over forgery and perjury.
The group described the Chairman’s action as criminal, diabolic, selfish, saying he deserves to be sitting in a maximum security prison.
Ali of Nassarawa Local Government Area, Kano State, is said to be the legitimate House of Representatives candidate of the ADP for Nassarawa Federal Constituency, Kano State, before Sani and others allegedly forged a death certificate, proceeded to swear an affidavit and wrote a letter to the INEC requesting his replacement.
The group described the death certificate, with no. No.922227, backed up with an affidavit which was issued on the 28th of October 2022 at Mai Kuluo registration centre, Nassarawa LGA, Kano State, as a sham.