By Abubakar Yunusa
A group, Guardian of Democracy and Development Initiative has asked
the National Chairman of the Action Democratic Party, ADP, Engr. Yabagi Yusuf Sani, has been asked to resign from the position immediately.
The group also called for his suspension and prosecution.
Addressing journalists in a press conference 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.
It 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.
The death certificate purported that Ali died at home in Kano.
“We therefore call on the party chairman to immediately resign, failure of which ADP hierarchy should immediately commence the process of his impeachment, arrest, and prosecution,” the group said.
“We will not stop until he is disgracefully sacked as the National Chairman of ADP and prosecuted for his criminal attempt to destroy party democracy and the national political process.”
Reacting to the accusations,the National Chairman of ADP, YY Sani, did not deny the allegations but said that the party, and not him in person, forged the death certificate.
According to him, “Is [the allegation] against me as a person or as the Chairman of ADP? They’re two different things.”
When he was told that he had been accused of forging the death certificate of some candidates and declaring them dead, he added, “I didn’t do that as a person. It was the party that did that.”
Speaking further, he said, “It’s false. What they’re saying it’s false.”
