This was made known by the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) while speaking to journalists during the distribution on Friday in Yola, the state capital.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Adamawa State has begun the distribution of sensitive materials ahead of Saturday Governorship and State Assembly supplementary elections in 20 affected local government areas.
This was made known by the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) while speaking to journalists during the distribution on Friday in Yola, the state capital.
The INEC official said that the elections would be conducted in 69 polling units with 36,935 registered voters.
SaharaReporters earlier reported that INEC had declared the governorship election held on March 18 in the state as inconclusive due to some irregularities.
Declaring the polls inclusive, the returning officer, Prof Mohammed Melee said the election was inconclusive because the cancelled votes exceeded the margin of victory.
As according to him elections were cancelled in 47 Registration Areas with a total of 41,796 registered voters, while 31,249 Permanent Voter Cards were collected.
Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), polled 421,524 votes to defeat nearest contender, Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani of the All Progressives Congress (APC), scored 390,275.
The announcement followed the collation of the controversial results from Fufore local government area. As imputed, APC's Binani scored 24,777 while the incumbent governor, Fintiri trailed her with 20,409 from the Fufore local government area.
After computation, the returning officer, Professor Mohammed Mele, announced the election as inconclusive.