FCT polls: Igbo community backs APC candidate for re-election

Leaders of the Igbo community in the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) have endorsed the re-election bid of Honourable Christopher Zaaka Maikalangu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, for the chairmanship of the council in the 2026 FCT Area Council elections.

The endorsement comes ahead of the polls scheduled for Saturday, February 21.

The leaders also condemned a recent endorsement of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate, Obinna Simon, describing it as unrepresentative of the Igbo people in the council.

Speaking for the AMAC Igbo community at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, Honourable Benson Ovoh and Comrade Ike Duru commended the Maikalangu administration for fostering political inclusiveness, promoting market allocations, and resolving long-standing issues affecting traders who had suffered decades of uncertainty due to market demolitions.

The group said: “For the benefit of hindsight, it is important to highlight that the Igbo populace in AMAC has been of progressive leaning right from the inception of the FCT.

“We have participated in building the economy of the place and shaping the nature of the local polity. In hands with the indigenous people, we have forged an alliance envied by many. This is despite the occasional loggerheads, which were most times resolved in harmony.

“Ndigbo in AMAC in recent times have witnessed a new brotherliness in the areas of political inclusiveness, patronage, market allocations and business development. The Christopher Zaaka Maikalangu administration in AMAC has given us a sense of belonging and restored our confidence in the unity project of the FCT.”