The Presidential standard-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the February 25th election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to, as a matter of urgency, release the governorship results for Adamawa state.
“Elections were conducted peacefully, but it baffles us how INEC is still holding the result.
“We heard that the PDP won the election.
“We want to alert Nigerians and the International Community that INEC may set Adamawa on fire by not releasing the result,” the former vice-president said.
He stated that Adamawa had been a peaceful state before the election, adding that “we will resist any attempt by INEC to divide the state.”Atiku Abubakar maintained that available records before them indicated that the PDP guber standard-bearer and incumbent Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, had won in 20 of the 21 local government areas with only one outstanding.
He, therefore, charged the electoral umpire to release the result without further delay.
THE CONCLAVE reports that the Atiku camp is suggesting that the APC-led Federal Government, is aiding a planned process to upturn the victory of PDP’s victory in order to humiliate Atiku who is from Adamawa State.
Besides, there social media reports late evening of Sunday, March 19, which claimed that the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, and a former presidential aide, Kashim Imam, sneaked into Yola, the Adamawa State capital, to aid the process of upturning the result in favour of the APC candidate, Senator Aishatu Binani.
They reportedly engaged the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner to instigate him to alter the votes, against the incumbent PDP governor, Umaru Fintiri.The social media reports alleged that it was on the basis of the plot that false reports had since dominated the media to the effect that Binani was making history as Nigeria’s first woman governor.
In a WhatsApp mesage that is fojnv the rounds, the faceless group that was raising the alarm said that the APC was attempting to take over Adamawa by force.
According to the message, “Soldiers have taken over the streets. Policemen are throwing tear gas. The aim is to humiliate PDP presidential standard-bearer, Atiku Abubakar, who is from Adamawa, as being unable to win in his own state.
“This is not the transition model which produced Buhari. It is disheartening that this is the electoral template he has bequeathed on Nigeria after eight years. Let’s urgently alert the world to current happenings in Adamawa, please.”
Meanwhile, reports said that the Adamawa State Governor and governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri, has won the majority of the votes cast in the Saturday’s election.
Although Mr Fintiri had yet to be formally declared the winner of the election, at the time of this report, the results of all the 21 local government areas in the state had been announced at the INEC collation centre in Yola, the Adamawa State capital.
A PREMIUM TIMES tally of the announced results showed that Mr Fintiri scored a total of 421,522 votes, while his closest challenger, Aisha Dahiru of the APC, scored 390,275 votes from the 21 local governments.
As of Monday morning, Mr Fintiri was leading Mrs Dahiru, popularly called Binani, after the results of 20 local governments had been announced. But the APC candidate was hopeful of security a large victory in the remaining local government, Fufore.
Fufore’s results were announced Monday evening.
Although Binani won in Fufore, it was not enough to close the margin of victory of Mr Fintiri.
In total, Mr Fintiri won in 13 local governments while Binani won in eight.
The race to the Adamawa government house was a closely contested one between the two candidates.
INEC is expected to declare Mr Fintiri the winner of the election in the next few minutes. But the process has become dilatory, triggering tension and anxiety in the political ecosystem of Adamawa.
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