The results for last Saturday’s presidential elections have started trickling in from 14 local government councils of Adamawa state.
The collation of the results as released by the Returning Officers at the General Murtala Mohammed College showed that the All Progressive Congress (APC) is leading in nine local councils followed by the Peoples Democratic Party PDP (PDP), which won in five local government councils.
The results showed that APC won in Girei, Maiha, Hong, Mayo-Belwa, Yola South,Yola North, Toungo, Mubi North,and Shelleng, while the PDP won in Madagali, Lamurde, Michika, Guyuk and Song local council areas.
In Girei, APC polled 17,149 votes as against PDP 9,285 votes, in Maiha APC recorded 15,432 votes as against PDP 2,603 votes, and in Hong local government, APC recorded 17,365 votes PDP 1,662 votes.
Also in Mayo-Belwa APC scored 24483 votes as against PDP 17,789 votes, while in Yola South APC polled 39,019 votes as against PDP 10,988 votes and in Yola North, APC scored 47,139 votes against PDP 13,790 votes.
In Toungo the results showed that the APC won the local government with 6,891 votes as against the PDP’s 4,239 votes.
Similarly, in Mubi North, APC polled 20,641 votes against the PDP with 12,964 votes.
The APC won Shelleng with 14,656 votes as against the PDP which scored 9,053 votes.
The PDP however won the election in Madagali with 4,997 votes against APC 3,331 votes, while in Lamurde, the PDP won with 17,919 votes as against APC 7,322 votes and in Michika PDP won with 6,762 votes against APC 3,527 votes.
The PDP won in Guyuk with 19,808 votes as against APC 9,575 votes and in Song local government PDP also won with 18,495 votes while APC scored 17,354 votes.
As at the time of filing this report, mores results are still being expected at the collation centre while the results for the Senate and House of Representatives are still being awaited.
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