Nigeria’s Electoral body, The Independent National Electoral Commissioner, INEC has declared Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP winner of the governorship election in Adamawa State.
Mr Fintiri won the supplementary election with 9,337 votes. He defeated his closest rival, Aisha Dahiru, popularly called Binani, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who came second in the poll with 6,513 votes.
The returning officer, Prof Mohammed Mele, on Tuesday in Yola, the state capital, returned Fintiri elected, after completing the collation of results of the supplementary election held on Saturday, April 15.
Mr Fintiri and Mrs Dahiru are the major contenders in the governorship poll.
The supplementary poll was held in 69 polling units in the 20 local governments in the state, with less than 40,000 eligible voters.
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.
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