The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has declared the election in Gwagwalada, Kuje, Abuja Municipal and Kwali Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja inconclusive.
At the Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC collation centre, for example, the Returning Officer, Prof. Sunday Ododo told newsmen that the election was declared inconclusive because the total number of cancelled votes cast, 15,560, was more than the margin between the two leading political parties.
He explained that while Mr. Abdullahi Halilu of the All Progressives Congress, APC polled 26,602 votes, Mr. Bitrus Tanko of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP got 21,230 votes, leaving a margin of 5,372 votes.
“For a winner to emerge, the margin should be in excess of the number of votes cancelled.
“If you compare the margin between the winning party and the runner up party, it is less than the number of voters who could not cast their vote.
“For this reason, the AMAC chairmanship election is hereby declared inconclusive until election is conducted in affected pulling units," he said.
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