Ahmadu Fintiri

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ahmadu Fintiri, has been declared winner of the Adamawa State governorship election.

The Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Andrew Haruna, declared the end result on Friday morning in Yola after the supplementary election in 44 polling models throughout 14 native authorities areas of the state.

Haruna mentioned Fintiri polled 376,552 votes to defeat incumbent Governor Jibrilla Bindow of the All Progressives Congress who bought 336,386 votes.

The Returning Officer mentioned Sen. Abdul-Azeez Nyako of the ADC scored 113,237 votes to put third, adopted by Emmanuel Bello of the SDP, who garnered 29,792 votes.

Haruna mentioned whole votes solid was 899,097, out of which 871,307 votes have been legitimate and 27,790 votes, invalid.

Fintiri, who was the Speaker of the Adamawa Home of Meeting in 2014, additionally served as Appearing Governor in July 2014, following the impeachment of the then Gov. Murtala Nyako.

(NAN)