ADAMAWA STATE BYE ELECTION, report from the field without prejudice: "After final collation of results SDP won the chairmanship with over 1200 votes difference but the electoral officer refused to announce the winner that he will not announce it until he reached Yola, the agents insisted that it must be announced in the collation centre as agreed upon. When the argument was going on the police started shooting sporadically, the result fell off from the EO in his attempt to run in to the vehicle with his team and zoom off.
In a nut shell the result sheets already signed by the Electoral officer / returning officer and ready for declaration is right now under the protection of the people keeping vigils at the venue of the collation. The people are waiting for them to return and do the declaration. Our suspicion is that since they know we won the election they refused to announce it so that they will change the results on reaching Yola now that they were unable to go with the results we don't know the next game plan. We are waiting to see how it will end later today. God is our strength". Report forwarded by Alfa Mohd, National Publicity Secretary SDP.