The national chairman of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), Yabagi Yusuf Sani, an engineer, has been asked to resign from the position for allegedly forging the death certificates of candidates of the party in the last general elections in Kano State.
The Guardian of Democracy and Development Initiative (GDDI), at a media briefing on Saturday in Abuja, also called for his suspension if he refused to resign, and be subsequently prosecuted.
The GDDI convener, Comrade Danesi Momoh Prince, alongside 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.
He described the ADP chairman’s action as criminal, diabolic and selfish, and that he deserved to be in a maximum security prison.
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Also, Ali, a House of Representatives candidate of Nassarawa Local Government Area, Kano State, in an emotion-laden voice, said he was the legitimate House of Representatives candidate of the ADP for Nasarawa federal constituency, Kano State, before Sani and others allegedly forged a death certificate and swore an affidavit with a letter to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) requesting his replacement.
Reacting to the development, Sani, who did not categorically deny the allegation, however, said that the party and not him as a person presented the death certificates.
He denied any wrongdoing, insisting that he would not resign.
