Developing: Finally, Nigeria’s so-called “backward north” sets the pace, produces first elected female governor in Adamawa

The so-called conservative, “backward north” of Nigeria has set the political pace by dismantling the culture of silencing and relegating women to the background with the emergence of Senator Aisha Binani as the first elected female governor in Nigeria.

This is the sensational piece of news that has just filtered in from Adamawa State, as escalated by sundry media platforms.

It is presented as a developing story, with the promise to serve readers the story in extenso as it is validated by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

THE CONCLAVE team is not on ground in Adamawa State, hence, its board of editors is raising posers about how Binani was able to close the 31,000 vote-difference between her and the incumbent governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ahmadu Fintiri, who was leading before the supplementary poll of Saturday.

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The INEC had confirmed that accredited voters in the places the supplementary polls held was about 36,000.

If the scenario supra was correct, the interim conclusion by THE CONCLAVE is that Binani must have scored well over 31,000 votes to cancel Governor Ahmadu Fintiri’s earlier lead in the March 18 poll.

The March 18 poll governorship race in Adamawa had gone down to the wire, but the outcome if it is confirmed must be against reasonable expectations by the camp of the PDP and dispassionate analysts or watchers of the political development in Nigeria.

trending report after April 15 supplementary poll is that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Sunday morning declared Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani the winner of the Adamawa governorship election.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner for the state, Barrister Hudu Yunusa, according to the authoritative PRNigeria, just made the declaration following the supplementary election held Saturday.

It said that full details would be reported later.