By Promise Eze
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Ahmadu Fintiri, governor of Adamawa, as the winner of the tightly contested state governorship election.
Mele Lamido, the returning officer for the Adamawa governorship election, declared Fintiri as the winner after the collation of the supplementary election results.
The supplementary poll was held in 69 polling units in the 20 local governments in the state, with less than 40,000 eligible voters.
Mr Fintiri won the supplementary election with the total votes of 9,337 to defeat his closest rival, Aisha Dahiru, popularly called Binani, who came second in the poll with a total of 6,513 votes.
Mr Fintiri and Mrs Dahiru are the major contenders in the governorship poll.
At the 18 March governorship poll before it was declared inconclusive, Mr Fintiri was leading with over 30,000 votes.
For both the main election and the rerun, the governor polled a total of 430,861 votes while the APC candidate scored 398,788 votes.
The final results were announced by the INEC Returning Officer in the state, Mohammed Mele.
Recall that another INEC official had on Sunday declared Mrs Dahiru the winner of the election but INEC said that declaration was null and void.
See the results of the supplementary election below.
Total registered voters 42,929
Accredited voters 16,423
AA 2
AAC 28
ADP 40
APC 6,513
APGA 16
APM 03
APP 02
LP 03
NNPP 05
NRM 35
PDP 9,337
PRP 03
SDP 05
YPP 06
ZLP 01
Total 15,999
Rejected votes 399
Total votes cast 16,398
Total Election Results
Total registered voters 21965666
Accredited voters 876,387
Result of the 18 March election
AA 643
ADC 324
ADP 2,174
APC 398,788
APGA 892
APM 606
APP 286
LP 2,732
NNPP 4,852
NRM 1,272
PDP 430,861
PRP 1,188
SDP 6,870
YPP 1,431
ZLP 200
Total valid votes 853,819
Rejected votes 15,287
Total votes cast 869,106
