The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Governor Ahmadu Umar Fintiri has just been named the winner of the Adamawa governorship race by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
After a supplementary election on Saturday, April 15, Fintiri was proclaimed the winner, defeating Aishat Binani, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who received 396,788 votes.
Less than 40,000 eligible voters participated in the supplementary election, which was conducted at 69 polling places across the state’s 20 local governments.
Before the governorship election on March 18 was ruled inconclusive, Mr. Fintiri was in the lead with more than 30,000 votes.
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The official results of the election were announced on Tuesday afternoon by returning officer Muhammad Laminu Mele, a professor and deputy vice chancellor of the University of Maiduguri. This cleared the way for Mr Fintiri to serve a second four-year term as governor of the northeastern state.
The PDP’s governorship candidate, according to professor Mele, has satisfied the constitutional requirement and has thus been re-elected as the state’s governor.
“I, Professor Muhammed Mele, hereby certified that I am the Returning Officer for the Adamawa State Governorship election. The election was contested. That the candidates received the following votes,” he said.
“That Ahmadu Fintiri of the PDP having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected.”
