Mohammed Wali: has links with PDPP.M.NEWS can confirm authoritatively today that President Muhammadu Buhari did not endorse Mr.Mohammed Wali as acting chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission because of his links with the Peoples Democratic Party.
Wali is a brother of Senator Abdallah Wali, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the April election in Sokoto state.
‘The two Walis are of the same mother and father, the same compound”, said a source close to the dramatic change by President Muhammadu Buhari, few hours after Professor Attahiru Jega, handed over to Wali after five years in the saddle.
Wali is a national commissioner of INEC from Sokoto state.
“There is a feeling that with the Sokoto governorship tussle still before the court, and INEC a party in the case, Mohammed Wali’s position may be compromised”, said the source.
“The presidency now has a feeling that the three-hour INEC boss was PDP’s man and that explained why PDP was attacking President Buhari’s choice later on, apart from the fact that Buhari is empowered constitutionally to appoint an acting or substantive INEC chairman”, the source added.
PDP’s spokesman, Olisa Metuh had attacked President Buhari for naming Amina Bala Zakari as the Commission’s Acting Chairman. Amina from Jigawa state, was also a national commissioner at INEC.
The PDP charged that Amina Bala Zakari may be a loyalist of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from Nigeria’s northwest zone, an accusation that points back at the party itself that Wali may also have been a stooge of PDP.
Mr. Metuh said that the PDP was deeply disturbed by the development in INEC, wondering why President Buhari, who knew all along that Mr. Jega would leave office by June 30, had to wait for the outgoing Chairman to hand …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
