Sumner Sambo, Director of News and Political Editor of Arise Television, has said that the loss of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) election may have been influenced by the lack of local candidates for the presidency and vice chairmanship of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
The All Progressives Congress (APC) won five of the six area council chairmanships in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), according to Naija News.
With only the Gwagwalada Area Council going to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the elections confirmed the APC’s hegemony in the FCT and left the ADC with nothing.
Sambo emphasized that the ADC’s reluctance to campaign in the villages must have hurt the party’s chances while referencing a voting pattern in the FCT on Arise Television’s morning broadcast.
“After that, it was more of a Christian, Christian ticket,” he remarked. Therefore, that might have infuriated individuals in one way or another to cast their votes in the manner that they did.
Examine critically the results of the presidential elections that have been held in the FCT since 2011. Goodluck Jonathan was elected to the Federal Capital Territory in 2011 and again in 2015. Despite winning nationally in 2019, Buhari lost. Voters in the Federal Capital Territory would then abandon the PDP and APC in favor of a third political party in 2023: the Labour Party.
“As you can see, there is a pattern of voting here and then in the National Assembly elections. The PDP won in 2011, 2015, and 2019, but in 2023, exactly like in the presidential election, these voters in the FCT chose to support the Labor Party.”
The same is true for the seat in the House of Representatives. Additionally, neither of these individuals is indigenous.
Let’s now focus on the reasons why the ADC would not have won the AMAC election. Since the Presidency is located there, the Abuja Municipal Area Council serves as both the administrative center of the Federal Capital Territory and Nigeria. It has communities attached to it because it is a cosmopolitan region.
Currently, the ADC did not campaign in many of these villages. Aside from our districts, there are roughly 49 villages that they were unable to reach because the ADC was still developing.
