The Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri, and the Deputy Governor-elect, Prof Kaletapwa Farauta, have received their certificates of return in Abuja.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) presented the certificates to the newly re-elected governor and his deputy around 5 pm on Wednesday at its national headquarters.
Fintiri on Tuesday emerged as the winner of an arguably drama-filled supplementary election in Adamawa State.
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In last Saturday’s rerun, Fintiri, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), polled 9,337 votes besting Senator Aishatu ‘Binani’ Dahiru of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 6,513 votes.
At the end of the entire exercise, Fintiri polled 430,861 votes, defeating Binani who got 398,738 votes.
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