The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has returned Christopher Maikalangu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the Chairman-elect of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC).
Persecondnews recalls that in April 2025, Maikalangu led a high-profile “mass defection” from the PDP to the APC.
He didn’t go alone—he took all 12 AMAC councillors and over 20,000 supporters with him in a move he called a “Unity Rally.”
He was elected as AMAC Chairman in 2022 under the PDP banner. By winning this 2026 election, he has successfully retained his seat, but this time for the APC.
Collation Officer Andrew Abue announced the results, confirming that Maikalangu, the council’s incumbent, secured a decisive victory with 40,295 votes.
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) followed in second place with 12,109 votes, while the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) trailed with 3,398.
According to the official figures, out of 837,338 registered voters, 65,676 were accredited.
Total votes cast stood at 65,197, with 62,861 validated and 2,336 rejected.
“Maikalangu of the APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” Abue stated.
The votes of the 12 political parties and their candidates that contested the election are as follows:
Agbon Vaniah of the Accord (A) – 403 votes;
Nemiebika Tamunomiesam of the Action Alliance (AA) – 108 votes; Paul Ogidi of African Democratic Congress (ADC) – 12,109 votes; Richard Elizabeth of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) – 588 votes;
Christopher Maikalangu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) – 40,295 votes; Eze Chukwu of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) – 1,111 votes; Chukwu Promise of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) – 122 votes; Ugoh Michael of the Action Peoples Party (APP) – 32 votes; Thomas Happiness of the Boot Party (BP) – 43 votes;
Jibrin Alhassan of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) – 1,694 votes; Samson Usani of the National Rescue Movement (NRM) – 73 votes;
Madaki Robert of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) – 421 votes; and Swani Buba of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) – 189 votes.
Speaking in an interview with journalists immediately after the announcement of the results, the APC collation agent, Gambo Babale, described the election and collation process as credible.
“INEC has done so well. We’ve seen the processes across all the polling units, the ward coalition centres and here at AMAC area council coalition centre. Everything was done perfectly well.
“They’ve tried. They’ve done everything humanly possible. I believe this high level of transparency occurred in all the coalition’s exercise that took place in AMAC.
“PDP won about two ward councillors, Karu and Karishi. That is to tell you the level of transparency that happens in this election,” he said.
While congratulating the winner, he said the victory was for Maikalangu to deliver more dividends of democracy to the people of AMAC.
Babale said that the results were an indication that the APC was ready for victory in 2027.
The YPP ward collation agent, Abdullahi Ibrahim, also described the collation process as transparent, while congratulating the winner.
The result sheets were signed by the ADC, APC, APGA, YPP and NNPP party agents present at the collation centre.
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