PDP sweeps Adamawa polls, wins all 21 LGAs, 226 wards

The Adamawa State Independent Electoral Commission (ADSIEC) has announced the results of the outstanding Numan Local Government Area (LGA) election on Monday evening, declaring the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Zidon Nzanyopwa, as the winner.

The electoral officer who supervised the Numan election, Sani Ahmed, said Nzanyopwa polled 19,174 votes, against the 5,676 received by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bio Alexander, and the 4,178 polled by the candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Nancy Nelson.

The Numan election was held on Monday morning and afternoon after it was postponed from Saturday, June 13, when elections were conducted in the other 20 LGAs, from which it became publicly known by Monday afternoon that the PDP had cleared the polls.

The chairman of ADSIEC, Mohammed Umar, announcing the overall results of the election late Monday evening in Yola, confirmed that the PDP won not only in all 21 LGAs but also in all 226 wards.

This means that all chairmen and vice chairmen of the 21 local government councils, as well as all councillors across the 226 wards, are members of the PDP.

The ADSIEC chairman thanked the people of Adamawa for turning out during the election to exercise their voting rights and for doing so in a peaceful manner.

MEDIA TODAY reports that Adamawa State, which is currently governed by an APC governor, is to have PDP leaders at the local government level, as the new leaders had been endorsed for the election as PDP candidates earlier in the year before Governor Ahmadu Fintiri defected from PDP to APC.