After the announcement of results from Adamawa’s 21 local government areas, Mr Fintiri polled the highest votes in the election that has now been declared inconclusive.
The electoral commission, INEC, has declared the governorship election in Adamawa State inconclusive.
Although final results tallied by INEC showed that Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of the PDP scored the highest votes, INEC said the cancelled votes were more than the margin of victory between Mr Fintiri and the runner-up, Aisha Dahiru of the APC.At the end of the official tally of results, Mr Fintiri defeated Mrs Dahiru, popularly called Binani, with a margin of over 30,000 votes.Mr Fintiri also won the election in 13 of Adamawa’s 21 local government areas while Binani won in the remaining eight.
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