Justice Abdulaziz Waziri of the high court in Yola, Adamawa state has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to proceed with the supplementary election in the state.
The court had previously restrained INEC from conducting the exercise based on a suit filed by Mustafa Shaba, governorship candidate of the Movement For Restoration and Defense for Democracy (MRDD).
Naija News recalls the suit had challenged the omission of the party’s logo on the ballot paper of the election held on March 9, that was declared inconclusive.
However, in his ruling on Tuesday, Waziri put aside the restraining order halting the electoral body from going ahead with the supplementary poll in the state.
The judge subsequently adjourned the case till Wednesday, March 27, for further hearing.
The Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Hammadu Fintiri, is leading from the first election after polling 367,471 votes while the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Jubrilla Bindow had 334,995 votes.
In declaring the election inconclusive, INEC said the 32,476 margin recorded by the PDP candidate was lower than the 40,998 votes cancelled in 40 polling units scattered over 14 council areas of the state.
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