SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, (THEWILL) – A Yola High Court has dismissed the case brought by the governorship candidate of the Movement for the Restoration and Defence of Democracy, Eric Theman, seeking the nullification of the Adamawa governorship election.
Justice Abdulazeez Waziri dismissed the case on Friday for lack of evidence.
This occurred few hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Alhaji Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner of the Adamawa Governorship election.
The Returning Officer of the election, Prof. Andrew Haruna, who declared the result Thursday in Yola after the supplementary election in 44 units across 14 local government areas of the state said Fintiri polled 376,552 votes to beat his closest rival, Gov. Muhammadu Bindow of APC who scored 336,386 votes.
