BREAKING: FCT polls: APC’s Maikalangu wins AMAC chairmanship election

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Christopher Maikalangu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) arsenic the elected president of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC).

The Collation Officer for AMAC, Prof. Andrew Abue, said that Maikalangu, who is the incumbent AMAC chairman, was returned elected having scored the highest fig of votes cast, 40,295 retired of the full fig of Valid Votes of 62,861 successful the election.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the African Democratic Congress (ADC) came 2nd with 12,109 votes, portion the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 3,398 votes.

According to Abue, the rejected votes is 2,336 and full valid votes is 62,861, portion the full ballot formed is 65,197.

He added that the fig of registered voters successful AMAC was 837,338, portion the full fig of accredited voters was 65,676.

“That Maikalangu of the APC, having certified the requirements of the instrumentality is hereby declared the victor and is returned elected,” Abue said.

According to him, the scores of the 12 governmental parties and their candid...