The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Umar Ahmadu Fintiri, winner of the Adamawa state 2019 gubernatorial election.
Announcing the final results of the governorship supplementary elections held on Thursday at the INEC office in Yola early Friday morning, the state Returning Officer, Professor Andrew Haruna, said the PDP candidate scored a total of 376,552 votes to defeat the outgoing governor of the state and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Jibrilla Bindow who got 336,386 votes.
“That Umar Ahmadu of the PDP, having satisfied the highest number of votes is hereby declared elected,” Prof. Haruna said.
Daily Trust reports that the PDP won the governorship election iin the state with a margin of 40,166 votes.
Before the March 9 election which was declared inconclusive by the electoral umpire, Fintiri, a former acting governor of the state, who ruled for only three months, had polled 367,471 votes, while APC’s Bindow had 334,995 votes.
