Garba Shehu, presidential
spokesman, says President Muhammadu Buhari and Amina Zakari, a national
commissioner at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), do not
share blood relationship.
The presidential spokesman said
this in a statement on Friday.
Zakari’s appointment to head the
INEC committee on collation centre has been generating a controversy.
The PDP had alleged she is
related to the president and her new position would compromise the electoral
process.
“President Buhari and
Commissioner Amina Zakari don’t share a family relationship. An inter-marriage
occurred in their extended families, so the imputation of blood relationship
between the President and the electoral commissioner is a simple lie,” he said.
“In their desperation, they
forget that it was the PDP government that appointed her in the first place and
they keep lying, as they have been caught doing on so many issues, by imputing
a blood relationship between her and President Muhammadu Buhari.
“What is even more curious about
all the fuss coming from the PDP is that they, as a ruling party picked Mrs
Zakari, judging her by her own merit and made her an electoral commissioner.
“She served so well with
distinction as can be verified from the records that President Buhari approved
the recommendation that she be reappointed, as he did other PDP nominees for
second-term of four years.”
He said the PDP, therefore, has
no moral right to “keep harassing this hardworking mother unless they have a
hidden agenda.”
Zakari had been at the
commission’s department of health and welfare after being redeployed as the
head of electoral operations and logistics.
Her redeployment took place after
the PDP accused her of working for Buhari and demanded that she be moved.
She was once appointed acting
chairman of INEC.
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