Fintiri Declared Winner of Adamawa Gubernatorial Elections

The Executive Governor of Adamawa State, Rt Hon Umar Ahmadu Fintiri has been declared winner of the March 18th 2023 Polls and April 15th 2023 Supplementary polls. This was announced in the midst of the drama that ensued within the last 48 hours where the Resident Electoral Commission of INEC decided to declare the APC Gubernatorial Candidate Senator Binani winner while collation was not yet to be completed.

In last Saturday’s rerun, Fintiri, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), polled 9,337 votes besting Senator Aishatu ‘Binani’ Dahiru of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 6,513 votes.

At the end of the entire exercise, Fintiri polled 430,861 votes, defeating Binani’s  398,788 votes.

The announcement by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at 5:49 pm on Tuesday was preceded by a series of political intrigues.

With last month’s governorship election declared inconclusive by INEC, a supplementary election was scheduled for last Saturday.