FCT: INEC cancels senatorial result in Abaji Area Council
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) FCT has cancelled the Abaji Area Council senatorial election results due to overvoting.
Sanni Saka, the Collation and Returning Officer for Abaji, said this while announcing the results on Monday in Abuja.
Mr Saka announced the results after objections by some party agents because the numbers were not tallying.
Earlier, Mr Saka announced that the All Progressives Congress (APC) scored 9,542 votes while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had 9,547 votes.
The Labour Party had 1,789 votes, while the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) had 43 votes.
”The total registered voters are 66,201, accredited are 21,473, while the total valid votes were 21,112.
“The number of rejected votes is 530; total votes cast are 21,373,” he said.
Mr Saka, however, said that INEC would decide if there would be another election in Abaji and when.
Sulieman Ango, the APC agent, said he called for the cancellation of the results because of some discrepancies in numbers.
Another party Agent, Abdulrahman Mohammed, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), objected to the result due to unaligned numbers.
(NAN)
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