The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has officially declared Christopher Maikalangu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) chairmanship election.
The result was announced at the collation centre by the AMAC Collation Officer, Prof. Andrew Abue. He stated that Maikalangu, who is the incumbent chairman, secured the highest number of votes cast in the poll.According to the figures released, Maikalangu polled 40,295 votes out of 62,861 valid votes to emerge victorious.“Maikalangu of the APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” Abue announced.
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) came second with 12,109 votes, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secured 3,398 votes.Other parties recorded the following results:
• 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
Prof. Abue also revealed that 2,336 votes were rejected, bringing the total votes cast to 65,197. Out of 837,338 registered voters in AMAC, 65,676 were accredited to participate in the election.Reacting to the outcome, the APC Collation Agent, Gambo Babale, described the process as credible and transparent. He praised INEC for what he called a well-organised exercise across polling units, ward collation centres, and the area council collation centre.
Babale pointed out that the PDP won about two ward councillorship seats in Karu and Karishi, saying this further demonstrated the transparency of the election. He congratulated Maikalangu and expressed hope that his victory would bring improved dividends of democracy to AMAC residents.
Similarly, the YPP Ward Collation Agent, Abdullahi Ibrahim, commended the transparency of the exercise and congratulated the winner.At the end of the collation, party agents from the ADC, APC, APGA, YPP, and NNPP signed the result sheets at the centre.
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