Breaking: INEC fixes date to conclude Adamawa, Kebbi governorship elections

Fintiri and Binani

PDP's Fintiri and APC's Aisha Binani

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Saturday, 15 April, 2023 to conclude the governorship elections in Adamawa and Kebbi States.

The governorship elections in the two states were declared inconclusive by INEC because the cancelled votes were more than the margin of victory between the candidates.

In Adamawa, incumbent governor, Ahmadu Fintiri of the PDP is slugging it out with Aisha Dahiru of the APC.

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So far, the incumbent governor had scored 421,524 votes while Dahiru polled 390,275 votes. Fintiri is leading his counterpart with over 30,000 votes before it was declared inconclusive.

In Kebbi State, the governorship election was declared inconclusive. The two leading political parties in this contest, APC and PDP, polled 388,258 and 342,980 votes respectively. The different in margin stands at 45,278 votes.

However, INEC, in a tweet on its verified Twitter handle on Monday said the inconclusive governorship elections and the National and State Assembly supplementary elections would be held on 15 April.
“Arising from its meeting held today, the Independent National Electoral Commission has decided that all outstanding Governorship, National and State Assembly supplementary elections will take place on Saturday 15th April 2023.

“A detailed official statement will follow shortly,” INEC said.

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