Adamawa: Woman Beats Ribadu, Others To Emerge APC Gov Candidate

By James Orji

Adamawa state has produced the first female governorship candidate in the current dispensation, after Senator Aishatu Binani won the All Progressives’ Congress, APC ticket to contest next year’s election.

Binani, a senator representing Adamawa Central defeated Nuhu Ribadu and a former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and a formr governor of the state Jibrilla Bindow.

She is expected to square up with the incumbent Governor Ahmadu Fintiri and other governorship candidates in next year’s election.

According to the results declared by the party in Yola, the state’s capital on Friday, Senator Binani polled 430 votes to beat Bindow who polled 103 votes and Ribadu, who secured 288 votes.

Binani’s feat makes her only the second female flag bearer of a major political party in Nigeria.

Aisha Alhassan, the late former minister of women affairs, was the first to tow the path.

She was the candidate of the APC in the Taraba state governorship election in 2015.

Although she lost the election to Ishaku Darius, she challenged his victory at the court of appeal and supreme court — but lost her case.

Alhassan, popular as ‘Mama Taraba’ died in May 2021.