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Adamawa APC reacts as INEC declares state governorship election inconclusive

- The Adamawa APC has rejected the INEC's decision to declare the state election inconclusive

- Mustafa Salihu, APC national vice chairman, northeast, announced the rejection on Monday, March 11, in Yola

- The party alleged that the governorship election that was declared inconclusive by INEC was full of irregularities

The Adamawa chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected the result of Saturday’s governorship election in some local government areas in the state.

Mustafa Salihu, APC national vice chairman, northeast, announced the rejection on Monday, March 11, in Yola.

Legit.ng gathers that Salihu, who was the state collation officer of presidential and governorship elections, alleged that the governorship election that was declared inconclusive by INEC was full of irregularities.

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He said: “We want to bring into the notice of the public serious irregularities associated with the just concluded governorship election. As a party, we reject this result in totality.

“Because there are evidences that voting process were compromised, in a lot of polling units, Card Readers were not used. There were over voting and our agents were chased away.''

He said the party had petitioned INEC on the election process from polling units, wards, local government and the state level but the petition was rejected.

He listed the areas where he alleged the irregularities took place to include Demsa, Lamurde, Numan ,Guyuk, Michika and Madagali local government areas.

Salihu alleged that the polling units that INEC declared the Saturday’s governorship election inconclusive covered just one per cent of polling units and urged the commission to expand its investigation to cover more areas.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that INEC on Monday announced that Saturday’s governorship election in the state was inconclusive because the number of votes cancelled was higher than the margin between the leading PDP candidate and the first runner up APC candidate.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue, Emmanuel Jime, said his party was unperturbed by the declaration of inconclusive polls in the state and appealed to his supporters to stay calm.

In a statement by Prof Eugene Aliegba, the secretary of the APC governorship campaign council on Monday, March 11, in Makurdi, Jime commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for its decision, which he said, was backed by law.

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