INEC declares PDP’s Fintiri winner of Adamawa governorship election

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ahmadu Fintiri,
has been declared winner of the Adamawa State governorship
election.

The Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Andrew Haruna,
declared the result on Friday morning in Yola after the
supplementary election in 44 polling units across 14 local
government areas of the state.

Haruna said Fintiri polled 376,552 votes to defeat incumbent
Governor Jibrilla Bindow of the All Progressives Congress who got
336,386 votes.

The Returning Officer said Sen. Abdul-Azeez Nyako of the ADC
scored 113,237 votes to place third, followed by Emmanuel Bello of
the SDP, who garnered 29,792 votes.

Haruna said total votes cast was 899,097, out of which 871,307
votes were valid and 27,790 votes, invalid.

Fintiri, who was the Speaker of the Adamawa House of Assembly in
2014, also served as Acting Governor in July 2014, following the
impeachment of the then Gov. Murtala Nyako.

(NAN)