INEC Declares Adamawa Gubernatorial Election Inconclusive

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the March 18 Gubernatorial election in Adamawa State inconclusive due to the margin of votes.

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Senator Aishatu Dahiru popularly called Binani polled 390, 275 votes while the incumbent Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 421,524.

INEC Returning Officer, Prof Muhammed Mele of the University of Maiduguri, Borno State, had earlier rejected the manual result sheet from the Fufore Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.

While the APC polled 26,329 votes and PDP garnered 21,721 votes in the result sheet, the INEC’s Result Viewing Portal (IReV) revealed that the APC got 24,777 votes and the PDP 20, 777.

But Prof Mele, stated on Monday in Yola while addressing journalists that the election was cancelled in 47 registration areas and 69 polling units with 41,796 registered voters.

He said that the number of Permanent Voter Cards (VCs) from the affected polling units under the affected Local Government Areas (LGAs) is 37,016.

“After the collation, we calculated the total number of votes among the two leading candidates with the highest votes, APC had 390,275 votes and PDP, 421, 524 votes.

“This gives us the margin of 31,249 while the total number of PVCs collected in the place amounts to 37,916,” he said.

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