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BREAKING! INEC Declares Another Governorship Election Inconclusive

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The election in Adamawa has been declared inconclusive.

The collation officer said a winner could not be declared because the number of collected PVCs at over 37,000 is more than the margin of lead for Governor Ahmadu Fintiri over his challenger Aishatu Ahmed.

Meanwhile, A PREMIUM TIMES tally of the announced results shows that Mr Fintiri scored a total of 421,522 votes, while his closest challenger, Aisha Dahiru of the APC, scored 390,275 votes from the 21 local governments.

As of Monday morning, Mr Fintiri was leading Mrs Dahiru, popularly called Binani, after the results of 20 local governments had been announced. But the APC candidate was hopeful of security a large victory in the remaining local government, Fufore.

Fufore’s results were announced Monday evening.

Although Binani won in Fufore, it was not enough to close the margin of victory of Mr Fintiri.

In total, Mr Fintiri won in 13 local governments while Binani won in eight.

The race to the Adamawa government house was a closely contested one between the two candidates.

INEC is expected to declare Mr Fintiri the winner of the election in the next few minutes.

Details shortly…

 

 

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