FCT Polls: INEC Declares Winner Of AMAC Chairmanship Election

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has officially announced Christopher Maikalangu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the duly elected Chairman of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC).

The Collation Officer for AMAC, Prof. Andrew Abue, announced the result at the collation centre, stating that Maikalangu, the incumbent chairman, scored the highest number of votes cast in the election.

According to Abue, Maikalangu polled 40,295 votes out of a total of 62,861 valid votes cast to emerge winner.

“That Maikalangu of the APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” he said.

ADC, PDP Trail Behind

The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the African Democratic Congress (ADC) came second with 12,109 votes, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 3,398 votes.

Other results announced by the collation officer include:

Accord (A) – 403 votes

Action Alliance (AA) – 108 votes

Action Democratic Party (ADP) – 588 votes

All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) – 1,111 votes

Allied Peoples Movement (APM) – 122 votes

Action Peoples Party (APP) – 32 votes

Boot Party (BP) – 43 votes

New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) – 1,694 votes

National Rescue Movement (NRM) – 73 votes

Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) – 90 votes

Social Democratic Party (SDP) – 2,185 votes

Young Progressives Party (YPP) – 421 votes

Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) – 189 votes

Breakdown of Votes

Abue disclosed that 2,336 votes were rejected, while total votes cast stood at 65,197.

He added that AMAC has 837,338 registered voters, while 65,676 voters were accredited for the election.

Party Agents Hail Process

Reacting to the outcome, the APC Collation Agent, Gambo Babale, described the election and collation process as credible and transparent.

“INEC have done so well. We’ve seen the processes across all the polling units, the ward collation centres and here at AMAC area council collation centre. Everything was done perfectly well,” he said.

“They’ve tried. They’ve done everything humanly possible. I believe this high level of transparency occurred in all the collation exercises that took place in AMAC.”

Babale noted that the PDP won about two ward councillorship seats in Karu and Karishi, which he said reflected the credibility of the exercise.

“That is to tell you the level of transparency that happens in this election,” he added.

He congratulated Maikalangu and expressed confidence that the victory would translate into improved dividends of democracy for residents of AMAC.

The YPP Ward Collation Agent, Abdullahi Ibrahim, also commended the transparency of the process and congratulated the winner.

The result sheets were subsequently signed by party agents of the ADC, APC, APGA, YPP and NNPP present at the collation centre.