BY, OMO IGHODALO, ABUJA
Against political permutations, candidate of the former ruling party in the country, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Mohammed Kasim has been declared winner of the Gwagwalada Area council election.
This is as the All Progressive Council, APC, claimed victory in the other two Area Councils, Bwari and AMAC declared by the Independent Electoral Commission,INEC, in Saturday’s Area Council polls.
According to the returning officer for Gwagwalada Area Council, Prof. Philip Akpeni, declared that ‘Kasim of PDP polled a total of 22,165 votes’ as against the 17,778 garnered by his closet rival, Mr Biko Umar of the All Progressives Congress.
In other results announced by INEC, Mr Joshua Ishaku of the All Progressive Congress (APC), was declared winner of Bwari Area Council Chairmanship election.
Prof. Mohammed Nurudeen, the Returning Officer for Bwari chairmanship election, disclosed that Ishaku polled a total of 18,466 to be declared winner.
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.
The chairmanship election was conducted in 10 wards of the council, namely; Igu, Shere, Dutse, Ushafa, Byazhin, Kuduru, Kubwa, Usuma, Bwari central and Kawu.
Also, INEC has declared Christopher Maikalangu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the elected chairman 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 number of votes cast, 40,295 out of the total number of Valid Votes of 62,861 in the election.
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) 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.
According to him, the scores of the 12 political parties and their candidates that contested the AMAC chairmanship election are:
Agbon Vaniah of the Accord (A) – 403 votes
Nemiebika Tamunomiesam of the Action Alliance (AA) – 108 votes
Paul Ogidi of African Democratic Congress (ADC) – 12,109 votes
Richard Elizabeth of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) – 588 votes
Christopher Maikalangu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) – 40,295 votes
Eze Chukwu of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) – 1,111 votes
Chukwu Promise of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) – 122 votes .
Ugoh Michael of the Action Peoples Party(APP) – 32 votes
Thomas Happiness of the Boot Party (BP) – 43 votes.
Jibrin Alhassan of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) – 1,694 votes.
Samson Usani of the National Rescue Movement (NRM) – 73 votes.
Dantani Zanda of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – 3,398 votes
Iber Shimakaha of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) – 90 votes
Simon Obinna of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) – 2,185 votes
Madaki Robert of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) – 421 votes; and
Swani Buba of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) – 189 votes.
Information at the disposal of penpushers online has it that PDP won two ward councils; Karu and Karishi.
Meanwhile, official results for Abaji, Kuje and Kwali are currently being awaited.