- INEC Declares APC’s Maikalangu Winner of AMAC Chairmanship Election
- ADC, PDP trail behind in AMAC contest.
- Party agents commend transparency of process.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Christopher Maikalangu of the All Progressives Congress as the duly elected chairman of the Abuja Municipal Area Council.
The Collation Officer for AMAC, Prof. Andrew Abue, announced the result at the collation centre, stating that Maikalangu, the incumbent chairman, secured the highest number of valid votes cast.
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EKO HOT BLOG reports that according to Abue, Maikalangu polled 40,295 votes out of a total of 62,861 valid votes 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.
The African Democratic Congress finished second with 12,109 votes, while the Peoples Democratic Party secured 3,398 votes.
Other parties recorded the following results:
Accord scored 403 votes.
Action Alliance polled 108 votes.
Action Democratic Party garnered 588 votes.
All Progressives Grand Alliance secured 1,111 votes.
Allied Peoples Movement recorded 122 votes.
Action Peoples Party polled 32 votes.
Boot Party secured 43 votes.
New Nigeria Peoples Party recorded 1,694 votes.
National Rescue Movement polled 73 votes.
Peoples Redemption Party secured 90 votes.
Social Democratic Party recorded 2,185 votes.
Young Progressives Party polled 421 votes.
Zenith Labour Party secured 189 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, with 65,676 voters accredited for the election.
Reacting to the outcome, the APC Collation Agent, Gambo Babale, described the 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.
“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,” he said.
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 optimism that the victory would bring improved dividends of democracy to residents of AMAC.
The Young Progressives Party Ward Collation Agent, Abdullahi Ibrahim, also commended the transparency of the exercise and congratulated the winner.
Result sheets were subsequently signed by party agents of the ADC, APC, APGA, YPP and NNPP present at the collation centre.
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