Incumbent Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Christopher Maikalangu, who is candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been re-elected Chairman of the council.
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Collation Officer for AMAC, Professor Andrew Abue, who disclosed this while reeling out results of yesterday’s Area Council poll results, added that Maikalangu was returned elected having scored the highest number of votes cast, 40,295 of the total number of valid votes of 62,861 in the election.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the African Democratic Congress (ADC) came second with 12,109 votes, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 3,398 votes to emerge third.
According to Abue, the rejected votes amounted to 2,336.
The collation officer said that the number of registered voters in AMAC was 837,338, while the total number of accredited voters was 65,676.
He declared: “That Maikalangu of the APC, having certified the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected.”
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 has 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 Karshi. 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.
The YPP Ward Collation Agent, Abdullahi Ibrahim, also described the collation process as transparent, while congratulating the winner.
The result sheets were signed by the ADC, APC, APGA, YPP and NNPP party agents present at the collation centre.
*PHOTO CAPTION: Maikalangu.
