Atiku, Dogara Congratulate Adamawa Governor-elect Fintiri

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The former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party's candidate in the last presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has congratulates the governor-elect of Adamawa state Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri.

Umaru Fintiri of peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defeated the incumbent governor and All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate Jibrilla Bindow in the yesterday supplementary election in the state.
Before Thursday's supplementary election, Fintiri had polled 367,471 votes while Bindow had 334,995, leaving a margin of 32,476 votes and placing him in a quite comfortable situation, as only 40,988 votes were cancelled by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Atiku on his twitter page@atiku tweeted: Congratulations to the man of our people, Governor-Elect Ahmadu Fintiri. The hope that our people in Adamawa repose in you is well placed and I look forward to working with you to make our state great again. -AA #AdamawaDecides

Also the Speaker of the Federal House of representative Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara congratulates the governor elect, say the people have spoken, wishing the incoming governor the pover to live up to the expectation for good governance.

Dogara said: Congratulations to Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri on your election as governor of Adamawa state. The people have spoken and it is my hope and prayer that you will live up to their expectations for good governance.

Fintiri is a former Adamawa State Governor whose reign remains one of the most short-lived ever in Nigeria's history. He was Speaker of the Adamawa State House of Assembly in July 2014 when Murtala Nyako was impeached as Governor. With his deputy, Bala Ngilari, having supposedly resigned just before the impeachment, Fintiri became Acting Governor for the three months within which the law mandated the conduct of a by-election.

He was the favourite to win the resultant by-election. 

However, three days before the election, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja invalidated Ngilari's supposed resignation, saying it didn't follow the appropriate channel as it wasn't Nyako who accepted it. Consequently, it forbade the conduct of the election and ordered the swearing in of Ngilari as Governor.

In a twist of fate, when Fintiri secured the PDP ticket in last year's primary, he polled 1,656 votes to beat Abubakar Waziri, former Chief Protocol Officer to former president Goodluck Jonathan, who polled 465 votes, as well as Ngilari, who could only muster 76 votes.