Fintiri extends lead as INEC collates supplementary guber results from 10 LGAs

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Adamawa State, Governor Ahmadu Fintiri has retained his lead streak started from the March 18 governorship election as results from 10 LGAs in the April 15 rerun are collated.

Fintiri has polled 4,292 votes from the 10 LGAs collated so far, as against his main challenger, Senator Aishatu Ahmed Binani who has polled 3,128 from the same LGAs.

Fintiri who had earlier scored 421,524 votes from the main election, now has a total of 425,816 votes,; while Binani now has 393,503.

This will depress many supporters of Binani in Adamawa State and the rest of the world who had known that Binani needed to amass about 90 percent of the votes from the supplementary election if she is to overtake and defeat Fintiri by the time the final results are collated.

A close look at the results so far shows that the leading candidates have largely maintained their hold on the LGAs where they were known to be strong, and the 10 determined so far are shared equally between them in terms of where they would normally be expected to do well.

In total for this governorship rerun, 69 polling units across 20 LGAs are involved, so results from 10 more LGAs are still being awaited.

The 10 LGAs from which results had been collated by the early hours of Sunday and the votes shared by the parties are as follows:

1. Demsa LGA
APC 43
PDP 124

2. Yola South
ADC 01
ADP 12
APC 797
APGA 05
LP 01
NRM 03
PDP 678
YPP 02

3. Yola North
ADP 02
APC 368
NRM 02
PDP 357

4. Lamurde
ADP 01
APC 285
NRM 01
PDP 580

5. Jada
ADC 02
ADP 02
APP 02
APC 145
LP 01
NNPP 01
NRM 01
PDP 271

6. Ganye
ADC 02
ADP 04
APP 02
APC 176
APGA 01
APP 01
NRM 02
PDP 309
PRP 01

7.SONG

ADC 02
ADP 04
APP 02
APC 176
APGA 01
APM 00
APP 01
NRM 02
PDP 309
PRP 01

8. Shelleng
AA 01
ADC 02
ADP 02
APP 02
APC 223
NRM 02
PDP 299

9. Hong
APC 361
PDP 1056