Former chairman of the economic and financial crimes commission, efcc, Nuhu Ribadu, has clinched the governorship ticket of the ruling peoples Democratic party (PDP) in Adamawa State.
Mr. Ribadu beat six other contestants, Including the state Governor, Bala Ngilari.
The party’s national working committee, NWC, had moved the election to abuja after Mr Ngilari was accused by a panel sent to the state to conduct primary election for state assembly aspirants of holding them hostage.
Mr Ribadu got 688 votes while governor Ngilari got 26 votes.
Awwal Tukur, the son of a former chairman of the PDP, Bamanga Tukur, got 24 votes,
Another candidate, Marcus Gundiri, who ran for governor on the platform of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria in the 2011 election, got 33 votes.
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