Adamawa Election: Fintiri Receives Certificate of Return
POLITICS DIGEST – The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has issued the certificate of return (CoR) to the Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri in Abuja.
The certificate was presented to him at INEC headquarters, Abuja on Wednesday.
Addressing newsmen after receiving his certificate, Fintiri stated that his victory prepares him for a bigger burden.
Recall that INEC, on Tuesday, declared Fintiri, as the winner of the state governorship election, with the governor declaring that the state, of Adamawa, was the real winner of the election.
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His declaration by the electoral commission put paid to the controversies that had trailed the election since the first balloting on March 18, 2023.
Mele Lamido, the returning officer for the Adamawa governorship election, declared Fintiri as the winner after the collation of the supplementary election results.
POLITICS DIGEST report that final results showed that Governor Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, scored 430,861 votes to beat Aisha Dahiru Ahmed (Binani) of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who got 398,788 votes.
The returning officer also disclosed that the total votes cast were 869,106 while total valid votes were 853,819. Rejected votes were 15,287.
Before Fintiri’s declaration, the commission met, in Abuja, on the suspended election and resolved to write the Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Baba Alkali, to investigate the Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Mr Hudu Yunusa-Ari for possible prosecution.
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