The supplementary election was held on Saturday and collation was ongoing before an INEC official declared Mrs Binani the winner.

Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), celebrated the illegal declaration of its Adamawa State governorship candidate, Aisha Dahiru, as “governor-elect”.

The APC on Sunday used its verified Twitter account to post a congratulatory message to Mrs Dahiru, popularly called Binani, who was “illegally” declared as the winner of the governorship election, even though the collation process was still ongoing.

“Breaking: @inecnigeria has declared Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani the winner of the Adamawa State governorship election.

Binani is the first elected female Governor in Nigeria,” the tweet reads.

Aside from the party, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, also celebrated the illegality.

“Just woke up in the US to this wonderful news. I am screaming my head off here! This is such a glass-shattering watershed for the women of Nigeria! Huge congratulations to my sister, Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed (Binani). At a point in the struggle we were speaking like a dozen times a day on phone!

“Special thanks to all those who worked so hard for this; special thanks to the good people of Adamawa State for smashing this hoodoo of gender bias; special thanks to the APC for making this possible; special thanks to President Muhammadu Buhari for providing such sterling leadership; special thanks to Nigerians for your support and prayers! Now, for the women of Nigeria, please go ye forth and conquer!” Mr Keyamo, an APC presidential camapaign spokesperson wrote.

However, the electoral body, INEC, has declared the results as “illegal” because the wrong official announced the results and declared the winner.

INEC, in a statement by its National Commissioner, Information & Voter Education, Festus Okoye, described its Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Adamawa, Yunusa Ari, as a “usurper” for declaring the result. The commission also called for the suspension of the process.

“The action of the REC is a usurpation of the power of the Returning Officer. It is null, void and of no effect. Consequently, the collation of results of the supplementary election is hereby suspended,” the commission wrote.

Background

The Adamawa State governorship election of 18 March was declared inconclusive by INEC. The commission, thus, ordered a supplementary election in 69 polling units in the 20 local governments in the state. The eligible voters in the polling unit are less than 40,000.

Incumbent Governor Ahmadu Fintiri was leading Mrs Binani by over 30,000 votes before the election was declared inconclusive.

Mrs Binani thus needed an almost 100 per cent turnout of voters and about 90 per cent votes for her in the 69 units to emerge the winner.

The supplementary election was held on Saturday and collation was ongoing before Mr Ari declared Mrs Binani the winner.

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Keyamo and fake news are like water and oil you can't separate one from the other

Nobody takes the man serious anymore

Keyamo is a joker from time immemorial.

Juvenile fulminations from non juveniles....

This Chimamanda English carry weight walahi

Congratulations to binani of APC

when will the mod move this to front page?
senior advocate of nonsense disgracing his profession

Islie:

The supplementary election was held on Saturday and collation was ongoing before an INEC official declared Mrs Binani the winner.




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Nlfpmod

The confused lawyer of our time is Keyamo.

Lol

Keyamo is a senior advocate of nonsense, that's why.

frankyychiji:
Keyamo is a senior advocate of nonsense, that's why.

Can you pass ordinary JAMB to study law in your weak state university, not to talk of admission into a Federal university?

It is not possible to be an APC supporter and not sound stupid. The moment you join the evil party, you loose your brain. They want to replicate what played out on February 25 in Adamawa state. This just show that most INEC staff are APC supporters.
What a shame.

SANpaper no go end well.

Ur downfall is near .

Gunayo:
It is not possible to be an APC supporter and not sound stupid. The moment you join the evil party, you loose your brain.
What a shame.

If you are not one of them, please mention 3 ideological differences politically, between APC, Pdp & the Labor Party?

And please don’t tell us you are not aware that Dirty Ahmed, Peter Obi, Doyin Okupe (All Pdp), Kenneth Okonkwo (former APC) Peter Obi’s spokesperson are all political Oloshos.

He retracted . Post that one too. The REC will chop beans in jail wella

Twas a mistake

When Nigerians complained about INEC activities in this election season some urchinsticated individuals called them names, let me see how APC will get 90% of 40,000 remaining votes to defeat Fintiri with the voter apathy they have created in the country

You woke up in the US. Did you have to add that?

Sigh. SAN indeed 😣😵

See them, mandate stealers

I wanted her to win aswell
And I still hope she does.
But I am not an indigene of Adamawa,so I don't really know if she's who they want.

Modified

TemplarLandry:
It wasn't deliberate. Cut him some slack.

yes, He only reacted to the information at the moment. Ofcus the headless mobs will attack anything to agenda'

I noticed this woman's lack of a win is not really being celebrated by even rivals. It's as if a sizeable number of people want her to win.

Abfinest007:
Keyamo and fake news are like water and oil you can't separate one from the other

An initial report came out that she won from several and multiple news platform.
The yahoo rec officer announced it.
Festus keyamo and many of us celebrated the fact that we would be having a female governor for the first time.
It took inec Nigeria over 1hr plus to comeback and nullify the outcome.
These men aren't at fault but inec itself.
The debunking should have been instant if they were really doing their job.

ednut1:
He retracted . Post that one too. The REC will chop beans in jail wella

you know say Seun too Don join the Headless mob. He just need to appeal to them and news that appeals them is not forth coming these days.

Don't count your chicken until they are hatched.

Keyamo is a fool