Christopher Zakka Mai Kalangu, the PDP chairmanship candidate is poised to deal a humiliating blow to the ruling APC, by winning the Abuja Municipal Area Council, famously called AMAC....CONTINUE READING
AMAC houses all the three arms of the Federal government, including President Buhari’s Aso Rock.
APC’s Abdullahi Adamu Candido is the incumbent chairman of the council.
The party went into the election fractured following a legal battle for the chairmanship ticket between Dr Murtala Usman Karshi and Suleiman Gwagwa.
Although final results are being awaited, the PDP candidate has won in seven out of eight wards declared for the council.
The APC candidate won massively in his Karshi ward, polling 1,477 votes to PDP’s 180 votes.
Based on the results, Kalangu is cruising ahead with 11,494 votes against APC’s Dr Murtala Usman Karshi, who won 8,234 votes.
Results from four wards are still being awaited.
WARD – NYANYA
APC -1,199
PDP – 1,861
WARD – JIWA
APC -1,224
PDP – 1,429
WARD – GUI
APC -834
PDP – 1,606
WARD – KARSHI
APC -1,477
PDP – 180
WARD – GWAGWA
APC -1,158
PDP – 1,624
WARD – OROZO
APC -335
PDP – 674
WARD – CITY CENTER
APC -1,093
PDP – 1,137
WARD – GARKI
APC -914
PDP – 2,983
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