NewsNigeriaPoliticsINEC Declares Adamawa State Gov’ship Election Inconclusive

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the governorship election in Adamawa state as inconclusive due to the cancellation of results in some polling units.

Prof. Mohammed Mele, the state INEC Returning Officer who announced this at the state collation centre on Monday in Yola said “the election was canceled in 47 registration areas, 69 polling Units with the total number of 41,796 registered voters.

“The number of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) from the affected polling units in the different Local Government Areas (LGAs) affected is 37,016.

“After the coalition, we calculated the total number of votes with the two leading candidates with the highest votes, APC with 390,275 and PDP with 421, 524 votes.

“So this gives us the margin of 31,249 and the total number of PVCs collected in the places amounts to 37, 916,” he said.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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