Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa State Aisha Dahiru aka Binani is putting up a fight to unseat Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and become the first female governor in Nigeria.
As of Sunday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced the results for 18 LGAs and the figures show Fintiri maintaining a slim lead over Binani.
While the governor, who is seeking re-election has won in 11 LGAs, Binani has taken the remaining seven councils.
Fintiri has polled 346,109 votes while Binani has garnered 328,870 votes, leaving a difference of little over 17,000 votes between the two leading candidates.
There are three more local governments to go and they are Fufore, Michika and Song. Earlier, results for Fufore were read, however, a controversy ensued over the margin of victory between the APC and the PDP in the council.
This prompted the resident electoral commissioner (REC), Hudu Yunusa-Ari, to issue a form to recompile the governorship election results for some areas in the Fufore LGA.
With this development, INCE has said that the announcement of results for the Fufore LG will be deferred to 12:00 noon on Monday.
Things quickly grew a bit more intense at the INEC Collation Centre, as some thugs surrounded the venue of the gathering in Yola and refused anyone from leaving the premises at about 2am on Monday until security operatives stepped in.
