PDP Defeats APC, Wins Adamawa Guber Poll

The People's Democratic Party defeats the All Progressive Congress in the just concluded Governorship election in Adamawa State. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has defeated the All Progressive Congress (APC) to clinch victory at the state governorship election held on Saturday.

By this, Jibrila Bindow, the state governor and APC candidate, seeking a second term in office has lost his re-election bid to Ahmadu Fintiri, candidate of the PDP in the election. The result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) showed that Mr Fintiri polled 367,471 votes to emerge the winner. The outgoing governor, Mr Bindow, polled 334,995 votes to come second.


The returning officer for the election, Andrew Haruna, a professor, said while the state has 1,973,083 registered voters, 894, 481 voters were accredited for the governorship election. The state is the home of Atiku Abubakar, the 2019 presidential candidate of the PDP who lost his long-desired ambition to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Although Mr Abubakar won in the state, Mr Buhari defeated him with over 4 million votes. The PDP presidential candidate has gone to the judiciary in a bid to retrieve his ‘alleged’ mandate.