The Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) elections in the Federal Capital Territory have been declared inconclusive.This followed evidence raised over 15,360
disfranchised voters in some polling units by the collation officer,
Prof. Sunday Ododo of the University of Maiduguri, who declared the
chairmanship election inconclusive.
The
affected areas that led to the declaration of the election inconclusive
includes: Karu-8,044 voters, Garki -2,243 voters, Guyi-2,628, Gwarinpa
-1,628 voters, Karshi-653, and Nyanya 17 voters.
Prof.
Ododo while declaring the result said among the two conditions to be
satisfied before a candidate can be declared winner was that the winner
must score the majority of votes cast.
He said the
margin between the two leading parties, All Progressives Congress (APC)
and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was 5,372 votes.
The APC had scored 26,602 votes while the PDP polled 21, 230 votes.
Ododo
said 15,360 votes in 14 polling units which were cancelled, was more
than the margin between the two candidates adding that a run-off will be
conducted in the affected areas.
Also, The
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has also declared
chairmanship elections in Kuje Area Council conducted on Saturday
inconclusive.
The returning Officer for the election in Kuje, Mr Nicholas Belikatu,
who declared the exercise inconclusive on Sunday, 10 April 2016 said
that none of the three candidates leading in the contest met the
criteria to be declared winner.
According to him,
INEC guideline provided that a party must win with a simple majority of
the votes cast and must scored two-third spread across the 10 wards and
number of cancelled votes should not exceed the difference between
winner’s votes and runner-up’s.
“The election
results did not meet the three INEC criteria in some polling units.
Therefore the results sheets and other materials will be moved to the
INEC office at Area 10 for review but the chairmanship election remains
inconclusive,’’ Belikatu said.
He had
announced that All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate scored 13,549
votes, People Democratic Party (PDP), 11, 478 votes and All Progressive
Grand Alliance (APGA), 5, 516 votes.
Meanwhile,
the All Progressive candidate in Bwari Area Council, Musa Dikko, has
been declared winner of the election conducted last Saturday by INEC
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