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In the just concluded 2023 presidential election, President-elect Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu  congratulated the winners nationwide on Saturday’s supplementary polls, urging them to brace up to serve the people with diligence and dedication. He also called on the police to investigate the exercise in Adamawa State, where the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) illegally announced a winner of the governorship election while collation had not been concluded. Mr Tinubu stated this in a statement he personally signed on Wednesday. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) conducted supplementary elections last Saturday in 2,660 polling units across 185 local government areas in 24 states. Among them were the governorship elections in Adamawa and Kebbi States. They were declared inconclusive or postponed during the February 25 and March 18 elections. Meanwhile, on Sunday, the REC in Adamawa State, Hudu Ari, illegally declared Aishatu Dahiru, popularly called Binani, as the wi...

  Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State says the act of Hudu Ari in seeking to manipulate the outcome of the just concluded governorship election in Adamawa State is an embarrassment to Bauchi State, where Hudu comes from. Bala, who spoke to newsmen in Yola when he paid a congratulatory visit to his Adamawa State counterpart, Ahmadu Fintiri, after Fintiri’s reelection earlier on Tuesday, stressed that Hudu’s kith and kin back home are depressed by his action. “For us in Bauchi, we are highly embarrassed and disgruntled. We feel ashamed that one of our own came and perpetrated this action,” Governor Bala Mohammed said.  He described corruption, believed to have driven Hudu’s action, as a condemnable act that must be rejected by every right-thinking person. “Corruption is temporary, and whatever is gotten through such means will not stand,” he asserted. He urged fear of God and adherence to playing the game by the rules and commended Governor Fintiri for staying true to himself...

  It was an unprecedented moment on Sunday when Senator Aisha Dahiru, popularly known as Binani, was declared the Adamawa State gubernatorial election winner. The Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Barrister Hudu Yunusa, shocked the nation with what many had described as a coup when he usurped the power of the Returning Officer to declare Binani, winner of the State guber election. Recall that a supplementary election was conducted in 69 polling units in Adamawa on Saturday in places it was not held during the March 18 gubernatorial election.  Before her declaration, Binani was trailing behind Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party, who had maintained a margin of 31,249 votes. Fintiri scored 421, 524 votes ahead of Binani, who polled 390, 275 votes before Saturday's supplementary poll. With 10 local government areas collated, the exercise was adjourned till 11 am on Sunday. But as early as 9 am, the REC appeared, with a cover provided by the commissioner of...