Published 20th Mar, 2023

By Joseph Adeiye

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the gubernatorial election held in Adamawa State on Saturday inconclusive.

INEC declared the election inconclusive due to the margin of votes between the leading candidates.

“Elections were not held in 47 wards, affecting 69 polling units. So, this gives us a margin of 31,249. The total number of PVCs collected in places where elections were not held amounted to 37,016,” said Prof. Muhammad Mele, INEC’s returning officer in the state.

The Nigerian electoral law provides that where the margin between two candidates is not up to the total number of collected PVCs in areas where elections were not held, a winner cannot be declared.

Aishatu Dahiru Binani, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had scored 390,275 votes; while Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, had polled 421,524 votes when INEC made its announcement.

Adamawa is the second state with an inconclusive election after Kebbi State. INEC has also suspended the collation of gubernatorial election results in Abia and Enugu.

INEC has announced the results of 20 governorship elections held on Saturday.

While the ruling APC has claimed 14 states, the PDP has five states. INEC has also confirmed that the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) won one state.

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