APC wins Abaji but no candidate can be declared winner; words of the independent national electoral commission INEC.
The electoral commission declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the chairmanship election in Abaji Area Council of Abuja.
However, due to a legal tussle over who the authentic candidate of the APC is, none of the party’s aspirants will be declared winner of the election, INEC said.
On Sunday, the INEC Returning Officer for Abaji Area Council, Gabriel Mordi, said it will not be legitimate to declare any of the APC aspirants as the winner of the election.
“We cannot declare a candidate winner in Abaji because the winning party does not have a candidate here, the case is still in court,” he said.
He said a winner will be announced after the Supreme Court decision in the coming weeks.
In the election, the APC scored 7,280 votes to defeat Yahaya Garba of the PDP, who polled 4,063 votes.
A total of 11,522 voters were accredited in the local government for the poll. Out of these, 11,390 were counted as valid votes while 107 were rejected votes.
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