Nigeria’s electoral commission, Inec, has announced a date for the suspended governorship elections in Adamawa and Kebbi states. Both elections will hold on April 15.
The electoral body declared Feb. 18 governorship polls in the two states “inconclusive”. In Adamawa, it said although incumbent Gov Ahmadu Fintiri of the PDP scored the highest number of votes, cancelled votes were more than the margin of victory between Mr Fintiri and the runner-up, Aisha Dahiru of the APC.
Inec said Mr Fintiri scored 421,524 votes while Mrs Dahiru scored 390,275 votes. Rejected votes were 14,888, less than the margin of votes.
Channels TV quoted Mr Fintiri as accusing the electoral body of not showing fairness in its decision.
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In Kebbi, the commission also said there were cancellations of results in different polling units across 20 of 21 local government areas in the state.
“We aggregated the total number of collected PVCs in those polling units and it came to a total of 91,829,” the returning officer of the election, Yusuf Sa’idu, said, according to Premium Times.
“And when we checked the results, the two leading political parties in this contest, APC and PDP, polled 388,258 and 342,980 votes respectively. When we looked at the difference, it stands at 45,278.”
Inec said the two elections, alongside all outstanding national and state assembly supplementary elections, will take place on April 15.
There will also supplementary national assembly elections in Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Edo, Imo, Jigawa, Kano and Kebbi States. Others are Kogi, Oyo, Rivers, Taraba, Zamfara, Plateau, and Yobe States.
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