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Lawrence Bajah – Abuja
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has clinched the nation’s capital city, as he emerged as the winner of the presidential election in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
With the results declared in the six area councils of the FCT, Gwagwalada, Abaji, Kwali, Bwari, Kuje and AMAC, with 478,923 accredited votes, Peter Obi secured 281,717 votes, Bola Tinubu of the ruling APC polled 90,902 votes while Atiku Abubakar of the PDP got 74,199 votes.
Obi who had been in an early lead since Sunday, when he took Bwari, Kuje, Gwagwalada, while the results of AMAC were awaited when the results came from AMAC he got his biggest chunk of votes, pulling 170,392 votes in the area council ahead of the candidates of APC and PDP who scored 29,596 and 26,407 respectively.
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