Gov. Fintiri in far lead as INEC collates results in Adamawa rerun election

Gov. Fintiri in far lead as INEC collates results in Adamawa rerun election

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State is leading the state governorship election after the collation of 10 out of the 20 local government areas where the supplementary election was held.

Fintiri had polled 421,524 votes in the March 18 governorship election against Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani’s 390,275.

Recalled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared the March 18 election inconclusive and fixed Saturday, April 15 for a supplementary poll.

The election was held in a total of 69 polling units with 36,935 eligible voters. Results of 10 local government areas so far collated showed that Fintiri polled 4,292, while Binani got 3,128.

Aggregation of the supplementary results with the earlier results polled by the candidates showed that Fintiri is maintaining the lead with a total of 425,816 votes as against Binani’s 393,403.

The 10 local government areas where results have so far been declared by INEC are Demsa, Yola South, Yola North, Lamurde, Jada, Ganye, Song, Maiha, Hong and Shelleng.

The aggregate results from 10 out of the 20 local government areas so far collated showed that Fintiri is leading with a margin of 32,413 votes.

Around 1 am on Sunday, the electoral body said the collation of the results would be concluded by 10 am.

INEC had on Saturday conducted supplementary elections in 2,660 polling units across 185 local government areas of 24 states.

The supplementary elections include the governorship for Adamawa and Kebbi states, senatorial and House of Representatives and state constituencies elections where they were previously suspended due to some reasons, including violence and situations where the margin between the winner and the first runner-up was less than the votes cancelled.