No winner yet in Adamawa, INEC declares gov poll inconclusive

No winner has emerged yet in the governorship election conducted in Adamawa State last Saturday.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday declared the election as inconclusive.

In the results from all the local governments but one declared so far, the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have remained the major contenders in the election.

So far, Ahmadu Fintiri, the incumbent governor and candidate of the PDP, has won 13 LGAs, leaving Aisha Binani, candidate of the APC with seven.

The result from Fufore LGA, the only one left, has not been collated. Thugs had reportedly snatched the results sheet of the LGA.

INEC officials said that they were working to remedy the situation by getting all the data that had been uploaded on the iRev.

But the PDP has accused the INEC and the APC of plotting to alter the results to favour the latter.

Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Monday, Iyorchia Ayu, national chairman of the PDP, asked the INEC to resist any attempt to “alter the electoral outcome”.

Ayu claimed that the results gathered by PDP agents from all the polling units in the state showed that the party won the election.

“From the results obtained by our party and independent observers directly from the polling units, the PDP recorded a sweeping victory in most of the states where the elections were held,” he said.

Presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has also alleged that INEC was creating tension in Adamawa by not concluding the collation of results of the election.