{"id":13260,"date":"2023-04-16T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T10:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13260"},"modified":"2023-04-16T11:06:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T11:06:21","slug":"inec-declares-binani-winner-of-adamawa-guber-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13260","title":{"rendered":"Controversy As REC Declares Binani Winner Of Adamawa Guber Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Senator Aisha Dahiru, popularly known as Binani, as winner of the Adamawa Governorship election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prof Hudu Yunus Ari, the Resident Electoral Commissioner of Adamawa, declared Binani as winner midway into the collation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Results from 10 out of the 20 local government areas had been declared while the exercise was adjourned till 11am.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, Ari made pronouncement an hour before the scheduled time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was leading before the pronouncement was made.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Some PDP supporters in the hall had protested why the announcement was made by the REC instead of the returning officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Details later\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Senator Aisha Dahiru, popularly known as Binani, as winner of the Adamawa Governorship election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6887,113,6886],"class_list":["post-13260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adamawa-guber-poll","tag-inec","tag-senator-aisha-binani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13263,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/revisions\/13263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}