 A dam-hour state governorship election has been declared inconclusive, even as Governor Ahmad Umar al-Fintiri leads with 421,524. The returning officer, Professor Mohammed Mele, said the election was inconclusive because the cancelled votes exceeded the margin of victory. According to him, elections were cancelled in 47 registration areas, with a total of 41,796 registered voters, while 31,249 permanent voter cards were collected. The collision officer said a winner could not be declared because the number of collected PVCs at over 37,000 is more than the margin of lead by Governor Ahmad Umar al-Fintiri over his challenger Ayesha Tubinani of the All Progressive Congress. Based on these findings and analysis, as stated in the Electoral Law, where a number of PVCs were collected in areas where elections did not hold, where no PVCs were collected, where