Nigeria Decides 2019
Adamawa guber election is also inconclusive
The Adamawa governorship election has been declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The Returning Officer, Prof. Andrew Haruna, made this known at the governorship election collation centre in Yola on Monday morning.
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According to him, the inconclusive declaration was triggered by the margin of cancelled votes between the two top candidates which is lower than total votes voided in about 40 polling units.
He added that 40,988 votes were cancelled in 44 polling units across the state.
Read also: INEC postpones poll announcement in Delta as Okowa leads
According to him, the margin of lead is 32,476; and going by the margin of lead which is backed up by law in the INEC Regulations and guidelines for the conduct of elections, a winner cannot be declared.
Prior to declaring the election inconclusive, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmadu Fintiri, was leading in the election.
Mr Fintiri gained 367,471 votes in the inconclusive election, while the governor, Mr Bindow got 334,995 votes.
The third largest votes was ADC which polled 113, 205 votes.
The returning officer added that the total registered voters in Adamawa state was 1,973,083 while 894,481 voters were accredited for the election.
He revealed that INEC will announce a date for the second leg of the election to conclude the exercise.
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