The Adamawa governorship election being hotly contested by Senator Aisha Binani of APC and Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of PDP has been declared inconclusive.
Prof. Mohammed Mele, the state INEC returning officer said that the election was cancelled in 47 registration areas, 69 polling Units with the total number of 41,796 registered voters.
“The number of Permanent Voter Cards (VCs) from the affected polling units in the different Local Government Areas (LGAs) affected is 37,016.
“After the collation we calculated the total number of votes with the two leading candidates with the highest votes, APC with 390,275 and PDP with 421, 524 votes.
“So this gives us the margin of 31,249 and the total number of PVCs collected in the places amounts to 37,916,” he said.
The APC and women groups alleged that there were moves to rig out the only female in the governorship race in the state.
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