Adamu Andari, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kebbi State, has dragged two opposition party members, Auwal Hadisi Arosiya and Gyamro Arosiya to a Magistrate Court 1, in the Jega area of Bauchi State over some items given to them before the election.
Andari had given 35 bags of fertilizers, 70 bundles of clothes, two bags of rice and the sum of N50,000 to the two members of the Peoples Democratic Party as incentives to canvas votes for his party during the last Governorship and State Houses of Assembly Elections held in the state.
The items were intended to lure members of PDP to vote for the APC in the elections. However, instead of canvassing votes for the APC, Auwal and Gyamro converted all the items to their personal use and kept sealed lips.
Andari, through his counsel, Barrister Bashir Umar said the two defendants should be charged for criminal breach of trust, conspiracy and misappropriation for converting what his client gave them for distribution to personal use. He also asked the court to recover the items given to the two opposition party members and that the court should punish the two for breach of law and criminal conspiracy. However, the defendant’s lawyer, Barrister Haruna Ubandawaki, said his clients who are PDP members never asked for the fertilizers, rice, clothes and cash that the APC chieftain gave to them.
