The chairmanship and councillorship candidates of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), who participated in the June 13, 2026, local government election in Adamawa State, have rejected its outcome.

 

 

Describing the election as a charade, the candidates are calling for a fresh poll.

 

The election in question produced chairmen-elect of the state’s 21 local government areas and councillors-elect for 226 wards, all from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

 

 

Addressing journalists in Yola, the candidates alleged that the exercise conducted by the Adamawa State Independent Electoral Commission (ADSIEC) lacked the basic ingredients of credibility.

 

One of the candidates, Abubakar Ahmadu, who spoke for all the candidates, said, “We wish to state emphatically that elections did not hold in all the local government councils across the state on June 13, 2026. We therefore wonder how results were concocted and how winners emerged.”

 

 

Ahmadu alleged that the announced results did not reflect the will of the people and could not be accepted.

 

“The purported conduct of the Adamawa council poll represents the height of electoral banditry,” he declared.

 

The ADC candidates called on democracy advocates and constitutional rights groups to intervene and defend democratic principles in the state.

 

Insisting that they do not recognise the announced winners, the ADC candidates demanded that ADSIEC fix a new date for a credible, transparent and inclusive local government election across Adamawa State.