The chairmanship candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Hon. Adamu Mustapha Danze has emerged the winner of the rerun election which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) conducted today, Wednesday.
Mustapha Danze defeated the incumbent chairman, Jibrin Abubakar Giri, who contested under the All Progressives Congress.
In the result of the re-run poll conducted in some parts of the Gwagwalada Area Council 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 should declare it winner of the election.
Addressing party men at the secretariat of the party in Abuja, the National Chairman of the victorious party, Chief Victor Umeh, said that the victory at the FCT poll has proved that APGA is a Nationsl party.
“With this victory, we have recorded in Gwagwalada, nothing will keep us from taking over the affairs of the nation in 2019.” [myad]
