{"id":65890,"date":"2019-03-29T05:01:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T04:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=65890"},"modified":"2019-03-29T05:01:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T04:01:58","slug":"finitir-defeats-bindow-to-emerge-adamawa-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/finitir-defeats-bindow-to-emerge-adamawa-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Finitir Defeats Bindow To Emerge Adamawa Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Adamawa State Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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PDP, Ahmed Umar Fintiri, has won the Adamawa State governorship election.<\/p>\n

Fintiri polled a total of 376,552 votes to beat Jibrilla Bindow, incumbent
\nGovernor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who secured
\n336,386 votes, amounting to a margin of 40,166.<\/p>\n

Before Thursday’s supplementary election, Fintiri had polled 367,471 votes
\nwhile Bindow had 334,995, leaving a margin of 32,476 votes and placing him
\nin a quite comfortable situation, as only 40,988 votes were cancelled by
\nthe Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/p>\n

Bindow might have harboured faint hopes of catching up with his adversary,
\nbut it was Fintiri who went even better, further widening the gap after
\npolling 9,081 votes at the supplementary exercise to Bidow’s 1,391.<\/p>\n

Governor-elect Fintiri is a former Adamawa State Governor whose reign
\nremains one of the most short-lived ever in Nigeria’s history.<\/p>\n

He was Speaker of the Adamawa State House of Assembly in July 2014 when
\nMurtala Nyako was impeached as Governor. With his deputy, Bala Ngilari,
\nhaving supposedly resigned just before the impeachment, Fintiri became
\nActing Governor for the three months within which the law mandated the
\nconduct of a by-election.<\/p>\n

He was the favourite to win the resultant by-election. However, three days
\nbefore the election, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja invalidated
\nNgilari’s supposed resignation, saying it didn’t follow the appropriate
\nchannel as it wasn’t Nyako who accepted it. Consequently, it forbade the
\nconduct of the election and ordered the swearing in of Ngilari as
\nGovernor.<\/p>\n

In a twist of fate, when Fintiri secured the PDP ticket in last year’s
\nprimary, he polled 1,656 votes to beat Abubakar Waziri, former Chief
\nProtocol Officer to former president Goodluck Jonathan, who polled 465
\nvotes, as well as Ngilari, who could only muster 76 votes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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