The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Christopher Maikalangu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) chairmanship election.
The results were announced at the commission’s area office in Karu at about 4:30 a.m. on Sunday. The Collation Officer for AMAC, Andrew Abue, confirmed that Maikalangu, the incumbent chairman, was returned elected after polling 40,295 votes out of 62,861 valid votes cast.
“That Maikalangu of the APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” Abue stated.
According to the official results, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate, Paul Ogidi, came second with 12,109 votes, while Dantani Zanda of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secured 3,398 votes.
INEC disclosed that 2,336 votes were rejected, bringing the total votes cast to 65,197. The number of accredited voters stood at 65,676 out of 837,338 registered voters in AMAC.
Other results announced by the commission are as follows:
- Agbon Vaniah (Accord) – 403 votes
- Nemiebika Tamunomiesam (Action Alliance) – 108 votes
- Richard Elizabeth (Action Democratic Party) – 588 votes
- Eze Chukwu (All Progressives Grand Alliance) – 1,111 votes
- Chukwu Promise (Allied Peoples Movement) – 122 votes
- Ugoh Michael (Action Peoples Party) – 32 votes
- Thomas Happiness (Boot Party) – 43 votes
- Jibrin Alhassan (New Nigeria Peoples Party) – 1,694 votes
- Samson Usani (National Rescue Movement) – 73 votes
- Iber Shimakaha (Peoples Redemption Party) – 90 votes
- Simon Obinna (Social Democratic Party) – 2,185 votes
- Madaki Robert (Young Progressives Party) – 421 votes
- Swani Buba (Zenith Labour Party) – 189 votes
Maikalangu’s victory secures another term for the APC in one of the most prominent area councils of the Federal Capital Territory.
