Another inconclusive election as INEC cancels polls in four FCT councils

The tradition of inconclusive elections under the current leadership of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, continued with the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Area Councils election, as the Commission has declared the exercise inconclusive in four of the six councils in the territory.

According to INEC on Sunday, the election in Gwagwalada, Kuje, Abuja Municipal and Kwali area councils were inconclusive.

For the Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, the Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Sunday Ododo, explained that the election in the area council was declared inconclusive because the total number of cancelled votes cast, 15,560, was more than the margin between the two leading political parties.

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According to Prof. Ododo, while Mr. Abdullahi Halilu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, got 26,602 votes, Mr. Bitrus Tanko of the Peoples Democratic Party polled 21,230 votes, giving a margin of 5,372 votes.

“For a winner to emerge, the margin should be in excess of the number of votes cancelled,” Ododo said.

“If you compare the margin between the winning party and the runner up party is lesser to the number of voters who could not cast their vote.

“For this reason, the AMAC chairmanship election is hereby declared inconclusive until election is conducted in affected pulling units.”

INEC had earlier declared the results in Abaji and Bwari Area Councils, which the APC won.

 

 

 

 

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