By Olusegun Adeniyi Driving through Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) streets during the recent Federal Capital Territory (FCT) elections, I witnessed what members of the political class seem uninterested in hearing. Polling units that should have buzzed with civic energy were attended by more party agents and security personnel than actual voters. With 65,676 votes recorded for all the candidates, out of 837,338 registered voters, it means just about 8 percent of AMAC residents bothered to exercise their franchise. And since some have started rushing to judgement about voter apathy, let me offer a modest defence of the Abuja non-voter. Let us begin with the most basic question: Who were the candidates at the election? I ask this literally. If you stopped a hundred residents in Maitama...