The governorship candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Adamawa State election, Hon Umaru
Fintiri, has said that he regards as victory postponed the declaration of the
election as inconclusive and the subsequent decision to conduct a rerun in
certain places.
Fintiri had attained the feat of
being the first leading candidate by end of collation Monday morning when the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) pronounced the election which
held on Saturday as inconclusive because the margin of lead between the two
leasing candidates was smaller than the number of cancelled votes.
Fintiri had polled a total of
367,471 votes to emerge the first leading candidate, and was followed by
Governor Mohammed Jibrilla Bindow of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who
received 334,995 votes.
Explaining how he arrived at
declaring the election inconclusive, the state returning officer, Prof Andrew
Haruna, had said the margin of lead between the leading candidates, 32,467; was
lower than the number of cancelled votes; being 40,948 in 44 polling units.
Prof Andrew said election would
be held in the affected units to address the vote cancellation anomaly.
Umaru Fintiri who spoke to
newsmen in Yola on the development Monday, asserted that his name would
eventually be announced as winner. He said, “I’m very hopeful of victory.
Adamawa is my constituency and I have been voted across the length and breadth
of the state. If INEC, for reason of its own cancellation of results, has opted
for supplementary election, we are ready for it.”
Fintiri’s optimism may have come
from the widespread view that the LGAs where elections were cancelled in some
units, namely Madagali (3 polling units), Michika (5 PUs), Mubi North (3), Hong
(4), Song (4), Toungo (3), Demsa (4), Numan (6), Lamurde (3) and Guyuk (3) are
mostly ‘PDP LGAs.’
He urged for calm among his
supporters, saying, “I enjoin Adamawa people to be calm and wait for the rerun
in the places they have identified. Already we are coasting home to victory and
we will get there.”
He added that despite the turn of
events regarding the election, he regarded its conduct as having been generally
credible. “I am satisfied with the electoral process. It was credible and
transparently so in most places,” he said.
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