Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has congratulated Ahmadu Fintiri on his victory in the governorship election.
Fintiri, after keenly contested election polled the total votes of 430,861 to defeat Senator Aisha Dahiru (Binani) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who got 398,788 votes.
In a tweet on Tuesday, Abubakar thanked the people of Adamawa for their relentless in nurturing democracy, adding that Fintiri’s victory was “well deserved”.
The former vice president wrote, “Thank you to the people of Adamawa and men and women of goodwill for staying the course in resisting coupists and enemies of democracy from having their way.
“The lesson from this exercise and others is the need for Nigerians to be vigilant and never give in to anti-democratic forces whose objective is to snatch, run with and undermine the mandate of the people as freely expressed in their votes.”
Abubakar added that the PDP has “one more major” mandate to reclaim.
“By the way, it is not yet uhuru as we still have one more major mandate to reclaim, and together as ONE, we shall accomplish the task for the good of our country and its people,” he said.
Abubakar and the PDP are currently challenging the INEC declaration of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of February 25 presidential election.
