PDP’s Fintiri defeats Binani in Adamawa guber race

Adamawa State Governor and governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri, has defeated Aisha ‘Binani’ Dahiru of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s election. Although Fintiri has yet to be formally declared the winner of the election, at the time of this report, the results of all the 21 local government areas in the state have been announced at the INEC collation centre in Yola, the Adamawa State capital. According to NEWSWATCHplus tally of the announced results, Fintiri scored a total of 421,522 votes, while his closest challenger, Binani of the APC, scored 390,275 votes from the 21 local governments.