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Announcing the result of the primaries at the APC secretariat, Yola, the chairman primary electoral committee said Bindow polled 193,656 votes to defeat his two rivals in the contest.
According to Ahmed Dr. Mahmood Halilu Ahmed also known as Modi polled 15, 498 votes while Mallam Nuhu Ribadu polled 7,705 votes.
The highly disputed primaries has witnessed altercation between Bindow and his opponents following massive irregularities that led Ribadu and Modi to reject the conduct of the election on account that it did not held across the state.
Leading the protest, president Buhari in-law, Modi said no election took place anywhere in the state.
Modi who spoke to newsmen Saturday, stressed that that the exercise was marred by confusion, and non or late arrival of election materials and officials, contrary to the electoral guidelines espoused by the chairman of the primary election committee.
He noted that due to the preponderance to f electoral malpractices, the chairman directed that the election be suspended on Friday night.
"At about 7 pm Friday night, sensing that the exercise was not going according to the laid down guidelines, the chairman of the primary committee, Major General Ahmed Tijjani Jibril ordered that the exercise should be stopped.
"However, despite the ditectives, we just heard that elections were being held in the night in primary schools, private houses were there was no light and agents of the contestants.
"The entire exercise was fraudulent, done in the dark, carried out by the officials of the state government and their agents, and we still call this election?" he quipped.
The aspirant, condemned the entire exercise as null and void in its entirety noting that the charade noting that even in Banana republic such electoral heist could not be accepted.
"It is surprising that the guidelines were flouted with impunity to the extent that an electoral officer Mr. Peter Nwadozie who supervised the exercise in Mubi North local government announced the result of the election and declared one of the aspirants winner on camera.
"even before the commencement of the exercise and arrival of materials, government officials were on social media posting outcome of election that did not take place.
"I will not accept this result, even if it favours me because the whole process has been compromised," he said.
Also rejecting the exercise, Ribadu said no primary election took place anywhere in Adamawa state adding that the whole process has been hijacked and compromised by those who want to assume leadership at all cost.
Ribadu who made the position known at a press conference in Yola noted that the development was an anticlimax to president Muhammadu Buhari clamour to ensure the prevalence of sanity, justice, respect for rule of law and order in Nigeria.
He noted that the primitive clamour for power has made a small group of unconscionable "rats" to discard decorum and decency to the background only to conduct the so called election in the night at primary schools and private homes of politicians and started announcing fictitious results thereafter.
"How could you conduct primaries in the night? No election has taken place anywhere in Adamawa, and therefore impossible to declare result. This is our demand and we want justice to be done, we should as a matter of urgency save our party," he said.
He noted that he has to withdraw from the race earlier when the NWC of the party adopted the indirect primaries due to the fact that the delegates were hand picked by the governor but decided to rejoin the race after the party rescind the decision and adopted the direct primaries due to the belief that people will not be disenfranchised.
In order to ensure a free and fair exercise, Ribadu said he outlined some measures during the stakeholders meeting with the electoral body in order to address any form of injustice and impunity noting that he suggested that neutral persons like NUT officials and party officials from another state should be brought for the exercise.
Ribadu said his worst fears were confirmed when the whole process was hijacked by the government as thousands of his supporters were disenfranchised having gone to the polling units without seeing either electoral officials let alone materials adding that some of his supporters remained at the polling units till 3:00am without seeing any electoral officer.
He stated that his personal visits to various polling centres in the state capital confirm to him that election did not hold even in Yola, let alone difficult terrains such as Madagali and Michika.
"Officials and materials were hijacked by party officials, who filled and return them with no media coverage at night," he said.
Ribadu demanded that for the party to regain its lost glory and as a matter of urgency the NWC should immediately cancelled the fictitious elections while demanding for the disbandment of the party executives because they are biased.
He said the action of the party officials was an antithesis to Buhari's known stance of justice and fair play adding that while Buhari was busy setting standards, some "rats" at the lower level were busy destroying his achievements which according to him was unfortunate.
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