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FCT Council Election: APC captures Bwari, Abaji

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FCT Council Election: APC captures Bwari, Abaji

The Independent National Electoral Commission,  INEC, has declared the candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, winner of the chairmanship positions in Bwari and Abaji Area Councils.

Mr Musa Dikko, the APC chairmanship candidate for Bwari and Alhaji Abdulrahman Ajiya, APC chairmanship candidate in Abaji Area Councils were declared winner.

Residents of the FCT went to the polls on Saturday to elect 6 chairmen and 64 councillors for the six area councils in the territory.

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Declaring Dikko winner, Mr Abubakar Abba, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer for the election in the Bwari, said that Dikko polled 18,066 votes to win the election. He was followed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Andrew Gwani, who scored 13,279 votes.

Similarly, INEC’s returning officer in Abaji Area Council, Mr. Bayo Emmanuel, said the APC candidate, Ajiya, polled 12, 793 votes against his opponent, the incumbent chairman of the council, Alhaji Yahaya Garba Gawu of the PDP, who got 10, 076 votes.

Emmanuel said: “The APC candidate having satisfied the requirements of the electoral law and scored the highest votes is hereby declared the winner of the April 9, 2016 Council election in Abaji.”

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