APC winner of Bwari council FCT poll INEC declares

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Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday declared the All Progressives Congress Chairmanship candidate, Mr Musa Dikko as the winner of the Bwari Area council election.

The result of the election was announced by the INEC Returning Officer for the area, Mr Abubakar Abba.

Abba said Dikko who polled 18,066 votes defeated his closest rival, Mr. Andrew Gwani of the People’s Democratic Party who recorded 13,279 votes.

He said that the area council had a total of 162,786 registered voters, while only 33,162 voters were accredited for the election.

The collation of the results which commenced at few minutes past midnight lasted till the early hours of Sunday.

Announcing the results of other contestants, the INEC returning officer said Mr. Wada Abdu of the Action Alliance scored 93 votes while Kenneth Olabaniji of Citizens Popular Party had 72 votes.

As soon as Dikko was declared winner of the polls, there was jubilation within the area as many youths said to be supporters of APC took to the streets.

Some of them who moved in convoy drove round streets such as the Sabon-road, Action layout and Kuduru road among others displaying the APC flags in the process.