CITIZENS COMPASS – THE incumbent governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmadu Fintiri has emerged winner of the Adamawa State governorship election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the results of the election which declared him the winner on Tuesday, April 18, 2023..
It was learnt that the election was concluded on Tuesday evening after two days of drama and suspense.
Final results declared by INEC showed that Gov Fintiri garnered 430,869 votes to defeat his closest challenger and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Aisha Ahmed Binani, who scored 398,788 votes.
The Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Mohammed Mele subsequently declared the incumbent Governor Fintiri, who was first elected governor in 2019, as winner of the election.
Recall that INEC had on Sunday suspended collation for the supplementary governorship election in Adamawa after the embattled Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu Yunusa Ari announced APC’s Aisha as the winner the Saturday supplementary election.
Ari’s declaration was contrary to the provisions of the Electoral Act.
Section 25 of the Electoral Act, 2022 empowers only the returning officer to announce the result and declare the winner of an election at the state collation centre in the case of election of a governor of a state.
