FCT Polls: APC chairmanship candidate declared winner of Abaji Area Council

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced that Umar Abdullahi Abubakar of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has won the predetermination for the chairmanship of the Abaji Area Council.

DAILY POST reports that Abubakar, who polled 15,536 votes, defeated the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, who scored 4,547 votes, portion the African Democratic Congress, ADC, campaigner came 3rd with 37 votes.

The APC besides recorded triumph successful Kwali Area Council, wherever its candidate, Daniel Nuhu, secured 17,032 votes to decision the PDP’s Haruna Pai, who polled 8,575 votes.

In the aforesaid vein, successful the Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, the APC candidate, Christopher Maikalangu, emerged victor aft polling 40,295 votes.

He defeated the African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate, who scored 12,109 votes, portion the PDP campaigner came 3rd with 3,398 votes.

Similarly, successful Bwari Area Council, the APC candidate, Joshua Ishaku, won the chairmanship spot with 18,466 votes.

The ADC campaigner polled 4,254 votes to spot second, portion the Zenith Labour Party, ZLP, campaigner garnered 3,515 votes to decorativeness third.

However, the PDP claimed the Gwagwalada Area Council chairmanship seat, with its candidate, Mohammed Kasim, polling 22,165 votes to bushed the APC candidate, Yahaya Shehu, who scored 17,788 votes.

The APGA candidate, Biko Umar, came 3rd with 1,687 votes.

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