The governorship election in Adamawa State held on March 18 has been declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Senator Aishatu Dahiru, a.k.a. Binani, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the state, received 390,275 votes, while incumbent Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, the PDP candidate, received 421,524 votes.
However, INEC declared the election inconclusive due to the difference in margin of lead and number of PVCs in areas where election did not take place across the State.
Fintiri, 55, defeated an incumbent, Jibrilla Bindow of the APC, in 2019 to become governor. He has been a constant feature in Adamawa politics for years, serving first as a member of the Adamawa State House of Assembly.
In 2014, he served briefly as the acting governor from July to October after a political crisis led to the impeachment of then-Governor Murtala Nyako
Fintiri’s victory has prolonged the emergence of Nigeria’s first elected female governor. After securing her party’s ticket and throughout the election cycle, Mrs Ahmed was seen as the best chance yet for a woman to be elected as governor in Nigeria’s 62 years of post-independence politics.
Briefly, on Sunday, a day after the election, congratulatory messages flooded the social media for Ahmed. But the celebration came while the collation of results was still underway, and the results circulated by faceless people on social media turned out to be false.
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