The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and its candidate, Hon. Adamu Mustapha Danze, have been declared winner of the chairmanship election in the Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The is APGA’s first electoral victory in the northern part of the country.
In the result of the re-run poll conducted in some parts of the Gwagwalada Area Council yesterday by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) APGA polled additional 426 votes to bring its total to 15, 738.
The closest opponent and APC candidate got 14 additional votes, scoring a total of 14, 560 votes.
Before the re-run APGA had recorded 15,312.00 as against APC 14,546.00 and PDP 6,082.00, which made APGA to demand that INEC declares it winner of the election.
Reacting, National Chairman of the victorious party, Chief Victor Oye, said the victory was a proof that APGA was a national party.
“With this victory we have recorded in Gwagwalada, nothing will keep us from taking over the affairs of the nation in 2019.
“Though enemies will work to divide the party, we caution members, of the enemy’s ploy to prevent them from realising the objectives they have set for the party,” he said.
