The collation of results for the Adamawa Governorship Supplementary elections, which resumed late Saturday night with results from 10 councils collated puts Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, in the lead over his rival from the All Progressives Congress, Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani.
The exercise kicked off at exactly 9:30 pm on Saturday night with results from Demsa and Yola South Local Government Areas presented at the collation centre by the local government returning officers.
Results from eight council areas which were later collated in addition to those of Demsa and Yola South showed Governor Fintiri adding to his lead of 31,249 with wins in Demsa, Lamurde, Jada, Ganye, Song, Maiha, Hong and Shelleng while Sen. Binani won only in Yola North and Yola South out of 10 council areas, of results so far released in the Adamawa Supplementary Governorship elections.
There was however drama when journalists sought to know whether Yunusa Ari, Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner, had recused himself from proceeding with the conduct of supplementary elections, as demanded by the Peoples Democratic Party in Adamawa.
The PDP which complained about the neutrality of the REC over a leaked audio tape, in which the REC could be heard asking the electoral officer in Fufore to help “This woman” surfaced the party has continued to question the impartiality of the REC as an unbiased umpire.
But as the collation exercise has begun, rather than the REC presiding over the affairs, it was instead the Administrative Secretary of the commission in the state, Adamu Gujugu who issued the ground rules for the commencement of collation.
The results from the 10 Councils as collated at the time of filing this report, showed Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, still remains in pole position in the race to the Dougirei government house over Sen Binani in the polls.
As it stands Fintiri has garnered a total of 3, 881 votes out of the 37,016 votes being contested in the supplementary polls while Sen. Binani has polled 2,527 of the votes.
Collation of Governorship will resume later at 11 am on Sunday, the embattled REC, Barrister Yunusa Ari announced the suspension of Collation when he made a surprise return to superintend over the conduct of the supplementary polls.
The results as collated for 10 LGA
Demsa LGA
Total Registered 366
Accredited voters 168
Votes
AA 00
ADC 00
ADP 00
APC 43
APGA 00
APM 00
APP 00
LP 00
NNPP 00
NRM 00
PDP 124
PRP 00
SDP 00
YPP 00
ZLP 00
Total Valid 167
Rejected votes 01
Total votes cast 168
Yola South LGA
Registered 5477
Accredited voters 1552
Votes
AA 00
ADC 01
ADP 12
APC 797
APGA 05
APM 00
APP 00
LP 01
NNPP 00
NRM 03
PDP 678
PRP 00
SDP 00
YPP 02
ZLP 00
Total Valid 1499
Rejected votes 53
Total votes cast 1552
Yola North LGA
Total Registered 2,222
Accredited voters 746
Votes
AA 00
ADC 00
ADP 02
APC 368
APGA 00
APM 00
APP 00
LP 00
NNPP 00
NRM 02
PDP 357
PRP 00
SDP 00
YPP 00
ZLP 00
Total Valid 729
Rejected votes 17
Total votes cast 746
Lamurde LGA
Total Registered 2275
Accredited voters 886
Votes
AA 00
ADC 00
ADP 01
APC 285
APGA 00
APM 00
APP 00
LP 00
NNPP 00
NRM 01
PDP 580
PRP 00
SDP 00
YPP 00
ZLP 00
Total Valid 867
Rejected votes 19
Total votes cast 886
Jada LGA
Total Registered 802
Accredited voters 442
Votes
AA 00
ADC 02
ADP 02
APP 02
APC 145
APGA 00
APM 00
APP 00
LP 01
NNPP 01
NRM 01
PDP 271
PRP 00
SDP 00
YPP 00
ZLP 00
Total Valid 423
Rejected votes 16
Total votes cast 439
Ganye LGA
Total Registered 863
Accredited voters 501
Votes
AA 00
ADC 02
ADP 04
APP 02
APC 176
APGA 01
APM 00
APP 01
LP 00
NNPP 00
NRM 02
PDP 309
PRP 01
SDP 00
YPP 00
ZLP 00
Total Valid 496
Rejected votes 05
Total votes cast 501
SONG LGA
Total Registered 863
Accredited voters 501
Votes
AA 00
ADC 02
ADP 04
APP 02
APC 176
APGA 01
APM 00
APP 01
LP 00
NNPP 00
NRM 02
PDP 309
PRP 01
SDP 00
YPP 00
ZLP 00
Total Valid 496
Rejected votes 05
Total votes cast 501
Shelleng LGA
Total Registered 1,081
Accredited voters 526
Votes
AA 01
ADC 02
ADP 02
APP 02
APC 223
APGA 00
APM 00
APP 00
LP 00
NNPP 00
NRM 02
PDP 299
PRP 00
SDP 00
YPP 00
ZLP 00
Total Valid 522
Rejected votes 04
Total votes cast 526
Maiha LGA
Total Registered 702
Accredited voters 389
Votes
AA 00
ADC 02
ADP 00
APP 02
APC 172
APGA 00
APM 00
APP 00
LP 00
NNPP 00
NRM 00
PDP 207
PRP 00
SDP 00
YPP 01
ZLP 00
Total Valid 382
Rejected votes 07
Total votes cast 389
Hong LGA
Total Registered
Accredited voters 1,450
Votes
AA 00
ADC 03
ADP 06
APC 361
APGA 01
APM 01
APP 00
LP 00
NNPP 00
NRM 04
PDP 1056
PRP 00
SDP 02
YPP 00
ZLP 00
Total Valid 1434
Rejected votes 40
Total votes cast 1474.
