Atiku Abubakar asks INEC to release Adamawa Governorship poll results
The Presidential standard-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the February 25th election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to, as a matter of urgency, release the governorship results for Adamawa state.
“Elections were conducted peacefully, but it baffles us how INEC is still holding the result.
“We heard that the PDP won the election.
“We want to alert Nigerians and the International Community that INEC may set Adamawa on fire by not releasing the result,” the former vice-president said.
He stated that Adamawa had been a peaceful state before the election, adding that “we will resist any attempt by INEC to divide the state.”Atiku Abubakar maintained that available records before them indicated that the PDP guber standard-bearer and incumbent Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, had won in 20 of the 21 local government areas with only one outstanding.
He, therefore, charged the electoral umpire to release the result without further delay.
The Atiku camp is suggesting that the APC-led Federal Government, is aiding a planned process to upturn the victory of PDP’s victory in order to humiliate Atiku who is from Adamawa State.
Besides, there social media reports late evening of Sunday, March 19, which claimed that the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, and a former presidential aide, Kashim Imam, sneaked into Yola, the Adamawa State capital, to aid the process of upturning the result in favour of the APC candidate, Senator Aishatu Binani.
They reportedly engaged the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner to instigate him to alter the votes, against the incumbent PDP governor, Umaru Fintiri.The social media reports alleged that it was on the basis of the plot that false reports had since dominated the media to the effect that Binani was making history as Nigeria’s first woman governor.
In a WhatsApp mesage that is fojnv the rounds, the faceless group that was raising the alarm said that the APC was attempting to take over Adamawa by force.
According to the message, “Soldiers have taken over the streets. Policemen are throwing tear gas. The aim is to humiliate PDP presidential standard-bearer, Atiku Abubakar, who is from Adamawa, as being unable to win in his own state.
“This is not the transition model which produced Buhari. It is disheartening that this is the electoral template he has bequeathed on Nigeria after eight years. Let’s urgently alert the world to current happenings in Adamawa, please.”
