The All Progressives Congress has won the Kuje Area Council chairmanship election, with its candidate, Danjuma Shekwolo, emerging victorious in the Federal Capital Territory poll.
Shekwolo polled 17,269 votes, according to the official results.
Declaring the outcome, Returning Officer Prof. Nkiruka Odoh of the University of Abuja said Shekwolo, having secured the highest number of votes and met all legal requirements, was duly elected and returned as Chairman of Kuje Area Council.
Closely following the APC candidate, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Zakwoyi Danlami, polled 15,824, while the candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, Abdullahi Galadima, scored 4,305 votes.
The Kuje result completes the announcement of chairmanship winners across the six Federal Capital Territory area councils.
PUNCH Online had earlier reported that Joshua Ishaku of the APC won the Bwari Area Council chairmanship election after polling 18,466 votes.
INEC also declared Christopher Maikalangu of the APC as the elected chairman of the Abuja Municipal Area Council after securing 40,295 votes out of 62,861 valid votes cast.
In Gwagwalada Area Council, the PDP candidate, Mohammed Kasim, emerged victorious with 22,165 votes, defeating Yahaya Shehu of the APC, who polled 17,788 votes.
Similarly, Umar Abdullahi Abubakar of the APC won the Abaji Area Council election with 15,536 votes, while the PDP polled 4,547 votes.
In the Kwali Area Council, the APC candidate, Nuhu Daniel, was declared the winner after scoring 17,032 votes, defeating the PDP candidate, Haruna Pai, who secured 8,575 votes.
Recall that an agent representing the APC, Haruna Jatau, objected to the results presented by the collation officer, Zubairu Mohammed, citing breaches in two polling units in Gudun Karya Ward, as collation resumed in Kuje on Sunday.
According to Channels TV, Jatau alleged that voters in Zagabutu village exceeded the number of accredited voters, while in Huni village, voters were accredited manually instead of using the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System.
“The APC rejects the election results from Gudun Karya,” he said.
In response, the collation officer denied the allegations, stating that BVAS was used for accreditation across the ward.
Mohammed added that a polling officer in Huni had initially rewritten results under pressure from party loyalists, but the figures were later corrected to reflect what BVAS captured.
The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner supervising the Kuje Area Council election, Abubakar Dambo, frowned at the cancellations on the result sheets but urged the APC representative to submit his complaint in writing to the commission.
A heavy security presence was observed at the INEC collation centre in Soka, Kuje, as officials, observers, monitors, party agents, and journalists gathered for the continuation of the process, which had been disrupted by hoodlums on Saturday.
Dambo earlier explained that the delay in announcing the Kuje chairmanship results was due to challenges in two wards, Central and Kabi. Results from eight of the ten wards had already been declared. He attributed the delay to a logistical error involving collation officer
