FCT polls: ADC candidate, Obidients reject results

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The African Democratic Congress candidate in the Abuja Municipal Area Council chairmanship election, Dr Moses Paul, on Monday, rejected the outcome of the February 21 poll, alleging widespread irregularities and insisting that the declared results did not reflect the true will of the people.

Also on Monday, The Obidient Movement rejected the outcome of Saturday’s AMAC chairmanship election, describing the process as a “brazen assault” on democracy.

The Independent National Electoral Commission declared Christopher Maikalangu of the All Progressives Congress as the elected chairman of AMAC, having scored the highest number of votes cast, 40,295 out of the total number of valid votes of 62,861 in the election.

Paul finished second with 12,109 votes, while the Peoples Democratic Party candidate garnered 3,398 votes.

However, in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday, Paul accused INEC of mishandling the election, citing alleged voter suppression, result manipulation, intimidation of party supporters, and vote buying across several wards.

He said he had reviewed the election outcome and insisted he won the people’s mandate.

He stated, “I stand before you today not as a man diminished by the outcome of Saturday’s event, but as a man empowered by a political movement. Punch