JUST IN: INEC reconvenes for collation of Adamawa guber poll results | TheCable AdamawaDecides2023
The Independent National Electoral Commission has reopened the collation centre for the Adamawa governorship supplementary election.
Mele Lamido, returning officer of the governorship election, is present at the collation centre in Yola, Adamawa state capital. Festus Okoye, INEC national commissioner and chairman, voter education and information committee, is also seated. The collation exercise was halted on Sunday after Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the resident electoral commissioner, declared Aisha ‘Binani’ Dahiru, candidate of the All Progressives Congress , as the winner of the election.Yunusa-Ari made the declaration despite the fact that all the results had not yet been collated.
Based on the Electoral Act 2022, the returning officer is saddled with the responsibility of declaring a winner in the election.
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