By Moses Okorie
The Young Progressives Congress (YPP) has elected its chairmanship and councillorship candidates for Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) ahead of the February 2026 FCT Councils’ election.
The primary election, which was conducted on Monday in Abuja under the supervision of some staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), produced the chairmanship candidate alongside 10 for ward councillorship.
The election saw the emergence of Honourable Robert Madaki scoring 42 votes out of 46 to defeat his opponent Mazi Onyeabo Anagwu-Nnodu who garnered 4 votes, through an Option A4method, where candidates were asked to queue behind their candidate of choice.
Those elected as councillorship candidates of the party for the electoral wards in AMAC were David Ibukun Ojo (City Centre), Wilfred Agberagba (Garki), Sonia Atabe(Gwarinpa), Adegbe George Ibrahim (Gui), Michael Onyekachi Nwachukwu (Jiwa), Jimoh Dogo (Nyanya), Francis Idhe (Karu), Joshua Chinuogu Chukwuma (Wuse),Ezekiel Ejembi (Kabusa) and Ogbebor Airenomonobiowan (Orozo).
Declaring them winners, the returning officer of the exercise, Mr. Williams Moses applauded all the aspirants for making the exercise peaceful and issued each of them certificates of return.
Speaking with pressmen, the chairmanship candidate, Madaki said, “If I am elected into AMAC, I would provide accountability; because the leadership today in AMAC does not hold people accountable, they only wait for the next election circle to vote in another person.
“If you observe critically you will realize that elections in AMAC do not follow the pattern of other parts of the country where a singular party continually holds onto power. “In order to stay in AMAC, you need to provide accountability, good governance and proper grassroot governance. There is no grassroot governance in AMAC today, AMAC is not visible to the people, and there is rarely anything that touches the lives of the people.
“Most of AMAC chairmen in the past have spent more time moving around with the FCT minister and doing all kinds of political activities at the expense of the people who voted them into power”, he said.
Madaki said his team has done a lot of preparation to make sure he won the election, and said he has been preparing for the last 20 years to serve the people of AMAC. He expressed the confidence that the YPP is the party to beat, because by mobilization they would emerge victorious over the other political parties.
In his remarks, the FCT chairman of the YPP, Mr. Adedotun Abraham appreciated INEC for coming to oversee their election.