ADC candidates reject Adamawa LG election results, demand fresh poll

The chairmanship and councillorship candidates of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), who participated successful the June 13, 2026, section authorities predetermination successful Adamawa State, person rejected its outcome.

Describing the predetermination arsenic a charade, the candidates are calling for a caller poll.

The predetermination successful question produced chairmen-elect of the state’s 21 section authorities areas and councillors-elect for 226 wards, each from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Addressing journalists successful Yola, the candidates alleged that the workout conducted by the Adamawa State Independent Electoral Commission (ADSIEC) lacked the basal ingredients of credibility.

One of the candidates, Abubakar Ahmadu, who spoke for each the candidates, said, “We privation to authorities emphatically that elections did not clasp successful each the section authorities councils crossed the authorities connected June 13, 2026. We truthful wonderment however results were concocted and however winners emerged.”

Ahmadu alleged that the announced results did not bespeak the volition of the radical and could not beryllium accepted.

“The purported behaviour of the Adamawa assembly canvass represents the tallness of electoral banditry,” helium declared.

The ADC candidates called connected ideology advocates and law rights groups to intervene a...