The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to resume the collation of Adamawa governorship election results and declare its candidate, Ahmadu Fintiri, winner of the election.

APC’s Aishatu ‘Binani’ Dahiru is Mr Fintiri’s main opponent in the contentious election.

On Sunday, the party made the call at a news conference by its national spokesman, Debo Ologunagba, in Abuja.

Mr Ologunagba said results uploaded on INEC Result Viewing Portal (IRev) already showed that Mr Fintiri won the election.

“The PDP, therefore, demands that INEC headquarters should immediately direct the returning officer to conclude collation, announce the results from the Polling Units and declare our candidate, Fintiri as the winner, having scored the majority of lawful votes cast,” stated the PDP spokesman.

He added, “From the results already collated across the 69 polling units where the supplementary elections held and which are on the INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal, Fintiri clearly won the election. Our party, therefore, demands that INEC should, without further delay, announce the results as already collated from the polling units and declare Fintiri as the winner.”

The PDP stressed that “anything short of this will not be accepted by our party and the people of Adamawa state.”

Mr Ologunagba condemned the action of INEC’s resident electoral commissioner (REC) in Adamawa as illegal, which confirmed the party’s earlier allegation of his complicity and demand for his immediate removal.

The PDP called on the inspector general of police to immediately arrest Yunusa Ari and make him face the full wrath of the law for his conduct.

(NAN)