The Adamawa State Independent Electoral Commission (ADSIEC) has announced the results of the outstanding Numan Local Government Area (LGA) election on Monday evening, declaring the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Zidon Nzanyopwa, as the winner.

The electoral officer who supervised the Numan election, Sani Ahmed, said Nzanyopwa polled 19,174 votes, against the 5,676 received by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bio Alexander, and the 4,178 polled by the candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Nancy Nelson.

The Numan election was held on Monday morning and afternoon after it was postponed from Saturday, June 13, when elections were conducted in the other 20 LGAs, from which it became publicly known by Monday afternoon that the PDP had cleared the polls.

The chairman of ADSIEC, Mohammed Umar, announcing the overall results of the election late Monday evening in Yola, confirmed that the PDP won not only in all 21 LGAs but also in all 226 wards.

This means that all chairmen and vice chairmen of the 21 local government councils, as well as all councillors across the 226 wards, are members of the PDP.

The ADSIEC chairman thanked the people of Adamawa for turning out during the election to exercise their voting rights and for doing so in a peaceful manner.

DAILY POST reports that Adamawa State, which is currently governed by an APC governor, is to have PDP leaders at the local government level, as the new leaders had been endorsed for the election as PDP candidates earlier in the year before Governor Ahmadu Fintiri defected from PDP to APC.

The Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, has condemned the order of the Federal High Court in Abuja deregistering the African Democratic Congress, ADC, and other opposition political parties.

In a statement on Monday, the party called on every Nigerian to stand up in solidarity and condemn the court order.

According to the party, an injury to one is an injury to all.

Recall that Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to immediately deregister the ADC, Accord Party and others from participating in the 2027 general elections.

Reacting, the NDC said “The court order must be condemned by all and sundry. An injury to one is an injury to all.

“We stand in solidarity with these opposition parties and call on every Nigerian to resist the attempt by the rudderless APC to drift our nation into a one-party state.

The National Publicity Secretary of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Bolaji Abdullahi, says they know the people responsible for the court order that deregistered the ADC and other political parties.

Abdullahi made this statement on Monday when he featured in an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television.

He was reacting to the court order which instructed the deregistration of the ADC, Accord Party and others from participating in the 2027 general elections.

“We know the person behind the Federal High Court judgment that deregistered the ADC. The person or the individual who is championing this, works in the office of the Chief of Staff to the President.

“He’s a former House of Representatives member from the South-East. His name is there. They are not hiding.

“Secondly, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, who was the second defendant in the case a few days ago, suddenly emerged as a plaintiff. What an absurdity! In a case that you are a defendant, then suddenly you woke up and became a plaintiff?

“Then the question that we ask him is, what is the injury that these individuals who call themselves former legislative forum will suffer if ADC and these other parties contest election in 2027? Of course, maybe the breakfast they are enjoying will come to an end,” he said.