FCT Council elections: Confusion as exercise begins

As accreditation and voting began in the early hours of Saturday, there is confusion in almost all of the sixty-two political wards that make up the six Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory.

The Bvax malfunction left the Independent Electoral Commission officials helpless in Abaji Area Council, leaving prospective voters stranded at Ona of Abaji palace polling unit, Angwar Sabo, and Abaji Central Primary School.
Ibrahim Musa, along with Yahaya Sadiq, PDP and APC agents in the area, blamed INEC for the exercise’s failure to go off without a hitch.

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Prospective voters in the Kuje Area Council central ward were seen milling around the polling unit with no electoral materials or INEC officials.

At Karu ward in Abuja Municipal Area Council, polling unit O02 and 005, there was zero turn out of voters for the exercise..

However, one of the potential voters at Karu, identified as Pauline, expressed her dissatisfaction with the situation.

“No voters register for the electorate to identify their names, we are moving round without direction, its back and front situation”

It is the same situation in Garki as of the the time of filling this report.

At polling unit 002 in Jiwa Ward, according to the Presiding Officer, Agwu Agnes, a total of 2,401 ballot papers were provided by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the Chairmanship and councillorship election.

Interestingly, while the names of candidates of the different political parties participating in the Chairmanship election were displayed, that of the APC candidate was conspicuously missing.

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It could be recalled that the supreme court on Thursday upheld the candidacy of Murtala Karshi, against Alhassan Suleiman Gwagwa (aka Biggy), who was, until the Thursday ruling, the popular candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters.

At Kugbo 1 and 2 only five persons voted in both the polling units leaving the other prospectives voters stranded.