Electoral commissioners declared the election inconclusive due to the difference in votes between the APC and PDP candidates.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the March 18 gubernatorial election in Adamawa State inconclusive.
The state’s All Progressive Congress (APC) Senator Aishatu Dahir (known as Binani) scored 390,275 points, while incumbent governor and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Ahmadu Fintiri scored 421,524 points.
But his INEC state collation officer at Maiduguri University, his professor Muhammadu Mele, declared the election inconclusive as the votes were in the majority.
he said: So we get a margin of 31,249. The total number of PVCs collected from locations where no elections were held was he 37,016. ”
“Based on these results and analyses, as mandated by the electoral law,” Melle said, the gap between the two candidates was greater than the total number of PVCs collected in areas where elections were not held. If also less, the election is declared inconclusive.
To date, the results of 20 governor polls have been published. The APC leads in 14 states, the PDP in 5 and the New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP) in 1. The election in Kebbi was also declared inconclusive by electoral bodies, but compilation of the results of the governor’s polls in Abia and Enugu was suspended.
Officially, nine of his eleven governors who ran for re-election in his March 18 election in Nigeria, West Africa, were declared winners by his INEC, each He will serve a further four-year term.
They are Borno State Governor Babagana Zurum, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwooru, Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun, Oyo State Governor Seiyi Makinde and Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdul Razak. , Gombe State Governor Inuwa Yahaya and Lagos State Governor Abdullahi Soule. Nasarawa and Bauchi Governors Bala Mohammed and Yobe Governor Mai Mala Buni. Of the 28 states, 11 incumbent governors are seeking re-election, and 17 outgoing governors are in the final week of an eight-year constitutional two-year term after taking office on May 29, 2015. increase.
