The incumbent Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, believes he ran against some powerful people in Abuja in the governorship elections and not Aishatu Dahiru (Binani) of the All Progressives Congress.
Fintiri, while speaking on Channels Television’s political programme, Politics Today, on Tuesday night, insisted that powerful individuals in Abuja were bent on imposing a new governor on the people of the state.
After the drama that ensued on Sunday in which Dahiru (Binani) was illegally declared the winner by the Resident Electoral Officer (REC), Barr Hudu Yunusa Ari, Fintiri was officially returned elected by the Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday.
Declaring the results, the returning officer of the election, Professor Muhammed Mele, said the governor polled a total of 430,861 votes. Binani polled a total of 396,788 votes.
While speaking about the saga, Fintiri said: “I don’t think I have run against any woman in Adamawa State, I ran against enemies of democracy outside Adamawa State.
“I contested against the whole system, I contested against those who feel they own Nigeria from Abuja and they feel they can make Adamawa a scapegoat.
“Even in the election, I didn’t go into the election against the woman, I went into the election against INEC. The whole presiding officers that were conducting the election, all of them were APC members.”
He said his performance in the last four years was what stood for him against the alleged enemies of democracy in Abuja.
He vowed to prosecute everyone involved in the election fiasco on Sunday since it happened in his state, if their respective organisations failed to prosecute them.
