FCT ballot: Kuje chairmanship end result delayed by two wards — INEC

The Supervising Resident Electoral Commissioner for the Kuje Space Council election, Abubakar Dambo, on Sunday attributed the delay in asserting the chairmanship end result to challenges encountered in two wards.

Dambo, in an interview with The Nation, stated the affected wards, Central and Kabi, had been but to conclude collation, noting that outcomes from eight of the ten wards had already been declared.

On the Kuje workplace of the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, he defined that the delay stemmed from a logistical error involving collation officers.

“We’re ready for the remaining two wards out of ten. The delay is as a result of the collation officers went to the improper place and needed to return to the INEC workplace earlier than heading again early this morning to finish the collation course of.

“I’m certain that by now they need to be on their approach again from Kabi ward,” Dambo stated.

Kuje stays the one excellent space council, because the outcomes from the opposite 5 councils have already been introduced.

In the meantime, safety has been tightened in and across the INEC workplace in Kuje to forestall any breakdown of regulation and order. Party brokers, journalists, and safety personnel had been noticed on the collation centre awaiting the formal declaration of the winner by the Returning Officer, Prof. Nkiruka Odoh.

PidomNigeria On-line had earlier reported that Joshua Ishaku of the All Progressives Congress received the Bwari Space Council chairmanship election after polling 18,466 votes.

“I’m the returning officer for the 2026 FCT Space Council, Bwari chairmanship election held on Feb. 21, 2026. That Joshua Ishaku, having glad the necessities of the regulation, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” the Returning Officer, Mohammed Nurudeen, introduced.

INEC additionally declared Christopher Maikalangu of the APC because the elected chairman of the Abuja Municipal Space Council after securing 40,295 votes out of 62,861 legitimate votes forged.

In Gwagwalada Space Council, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Mohammed Kasim, emerged victorious with 22,165 votes, defeating Yahaya Shehu of the APC, who polled 17,788 votes.

Equally, Umar Abdullahi Abubakar of the APC received the Abaji Space Council election with 15,536 votes, whereas the PDP polled 4,547 votes.

Within the Kwali Space Council, the APC candidate, Nuhu Daniel, was declared the winner after scoring 17,032 votes, defeating the PDP candidate, Haruna Pai, who secured 8,575 votes.