The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday finally declared incumbent Gov. Ahmadu Fintri of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner of the Saturday’s governorship supplementary poll in Adamawa State.
Fintiri polled 9,337 votes beating Sen. Aishatu ‘Binani’ Dahiru of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 6,513 votes and at the end of the entire exercise, Fintiri polled 430,861 votes, defeating Binani who got 398,788 votes.
The March 11 governorship election was declared inconclusive by INEC due to series of political intrigues, a supplementary election was scheduled for last Saturday.
INEC had on Sunday suspended collation for the supplementar poll after the State Electoral Officer had announced Binani’ Dahiru of the APC as the winner over the incumbent Gov Fintiri of (PDP
It was gathered that the exercise was conducted amid tight security at the state collation centre in Yola, as officials of INEC reconvened and resumed the collation of results for the supplementary poll.