Hon. Umaru Fintiri of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) took a slight lead over his major challenger in the
Adamawa State governorship election, incumbent Governor Umaru Jibrilla Bindow
of the All Progressives Congress (APC), when result from the eight local
government area to be announced on Sunday came to light.
Bindow had led the votes chart up
to the 7th LGA, Song, but Fintiri lept over Bindow with the votes from Michika
where he scored 24,504 votes against Bindow’s 13,224.
Overall, however, Fintiri had
only a slight lead with a total of 152,897 votes from the eight LGAs announced
thus far, while Bindow had 150,431 votes.
The eight LGAs from where the results
had thus come by some minutes to 2pm when collation was paused for a lunch
break Sunday, were Shelleng, Yola South, Gurei, and Mubi North where Bindow had winning votes, as
well as Mayo-Belwa, Yola North, Song and Michika where Fintiri has larger numbers
of votes.
The results from the eight LGAs
have largely conformed to type in terms of voting patterns for the big two
political parties, except that the APC won Yola North in the presidential
election of February 23 as against the reality with this governorship election.
The result thus far, with 13 more
LGAs to go, also confirms predictions that the governorship election in Adamawa
State would be a close race between the APC and the PDP.
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