An allegation of result tampering has led to the temporary suspension of collation in Adamawa state on Sunday night through Monday morning.
The exercise is likely to resume on Monday by the time all the irregularities are sorted.
Collation officers and even the state Commissioner of Police, Tola Afolabi had confirmed that there indeed were reported issues with results from Fufore but that they were working to make the necessary amends.
Before collation came to a halt as INEC officials tried to sort the issue out, results from 20 of the 21 LGAs of the state had been collated by Sunday midnight.
Results from Song and Michika LGA, respectively, were the last two to be collated after collation officers returned from break at just before 11pm.
Song and Michika results are as follows:
SONG (Central Zone)
PDP 24,744
APC 19,935
NNPP 1582.
MICHIKA (Northern Zone)
PDP 30,262
APC 15,793
ABC 217
The two brought to 20 the number of LGAs thus collated, leaving out just Fufore LGA, and bringing the votes of the leading PDP and APC candidates as follows: A total of 401,067 votes for the PDP and 366,498 to the APC.
APC’s Aishatu Ahmed Binani is expected to get the highest votes from Fufore if INEC officials and party agents eventually agree on the result that will be announced from there.
It’s still unclear if Aisha Bunani’s effort to make first elected female governor will come to fruition.
