Fintiri during an interview on Tuesday also said that there was a gang-up against him from Abuja by the enemies of democracy who thought they owned Nigeria.
The Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, has said he went into the election against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and not his female counterpart, Aisha Binani of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Fintiri during an interview on Tuesday also said that there was a gang-up against him from Abuja by the enemies of democracy who thought they owned Nigeria.
Fintiri was declared the winner of the 2023 gubernatorial election in the state on Tuesday by INEC.
The Resident Electoral Commission had illegally announced Binani of the APC winner of the rerun election on Sunday which led to the suspension of the collation.
At the resume of collation on Tuesday Fintiri polled 430,861 votes, defeating Binani who got 398,738 votes.
The election which was previously held on the 18th of March 2023 was declared inconclusive by INEC.
“I don’t think I have run against any woman in Adamawa State I run against these enemies of democracy outside Adamawa State and their gang-up has not gotten anywhere; I think for now we give God the glory.
“They decided to be enemies of democracy and the scapegoat they can find is in Adamawa State; they wanted to put a woman in their party forgetting that we had performed excellently well in this state; our people love us, they have voted for continuity.
“I did not contest against a woman or APC, I contested against the whole system, I contested against those who feel they own Nigeria from Abuja and they think they can make Adamawa a scapegoat, God is more than them, even in the election I didn’t go into the election against the woman, I went into the election against INEC.”
He also alleged that the presiding officers and executives were all members of the APC.
“The whole presiding officers that were conducting the election at the Pus; all of them are APC members, APC executives, APC officials. So, you can see that our people have spoken for us to have got out of this mess.”