The African Democratic Congress (ADC) came a distant second in Saturday’s chairmanship election in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Christopher Maikalangu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the elected chairman of the council.
The Collation Officer for AMAC, Prof. Andrew Abue, said that Maikalangu, who is the incumbent AMAC chairman, was returned elected having scored the highest number of votes cast, 40,295 out of the total number of Valid Votes of 62,861 in the election.
PlatinumPost reports that ADC, which was earlier tipped by analysts to win the council, came second with 12,109 votes, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 3,398 votes.
According to Abue, the rejected votes is 2,336 and total valid votes is 62,861, while the total vote cast is 65,197.
He added that the number of registered voters in AMAC was 837,338, while the total number of accredited voters was 65,676.
“That Maikalangu of the APC, having certified the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” Abue said.
Speaking in an interview with newsmen immediately after the announcement of results the APC Collation Agent, Gambo Babale, described the election and collation process as credible.
“INEC have done so well. We’ve seen the processes across all the polling units, the ward coalition centres and here at AMAC area council coalition 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 coalition’s exercise that took place in AMAC.
“PDP won about two ward councillors, Karu and Karishi. That is to tell you the level of transparency that happens in this election,” he said.
While congratulating the winner, he said the victory was for Maikalangu to deliver more dividends of democracy to the people of AMAC.
Babale said that the results was an indication that the APC was ready for victory in 2025.
Meanwhile, INEC has declared Mr Joshua Ishaku of the All Progressive Congress (APC), winner of Bwari Area Council Chairmanship election.
Prof. Mohammed Nurudeen, the Returning Officer for Bwari chairmanship election, who announced the results on Sunday in Bwari, disclosed that Ishaku polled a total of 18,466 votes and therefore declared him the winner.
” I am the returning officer for the 2026 FCT Area Council, Bwari chairmanship held on Feb. 21, 2026.
” That Joshua Ishaku,, having certified the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” he said.
Nurudeen also said that the candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC) scored a total of 4254 votes, while that of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) scored 3515 to come second and third places respectively.
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