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#FCTDecides2026: APC’s Maikalangu wins AMAC chairmanship election

Naija News • Feb 22
#FCTDecides2026: APC’s Maikalangu wins AMAC chairmanship election
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Christopher Maikalangu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the elected chairman of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC). The Collation Officer for AMAC, Andrew Abue, said that Mr Maikalangu, who is the incumbent AMAC chairman, was returned elected, having scored the highest number of votes cast, 40,295 out of the total number of Valid Votes of 62,861 in the election. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the African Democratic Congress (ADC) came second with 12,109 votes, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 3,398 votes. According to Mr Abue, a professor, the rejected votes are 2,336, and the total valid votes are 62,861, while the total votes cast are 65,197. He added that the number of regis...
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