By Kingston Magare 24.2.2026
African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate in the 2026 Abuja Municipal Area Council election, Dr. Moses Paul Ogigi, has claimed that he is the real winner of last Saturday election.
According to him by 3.pm results indicated that he won the election, but at the end of the day, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), announced that the All Progressive Congress candidate had won.
Dr. Mo as he is fondly said during an interview on Arise News, there’s no true democracy in Nigeria as people votes do not count, but it is what the electoral commission and the government in power decides. He submitted that there is no transparency and integrity in Nigeria elections.
“This is why these particular elections that we just concluded will be a defining moment in the democratic journey for Nigeria,” he said on Arise News.
“Not because it reflects the will of the people, but because it exposes that obstacle that hangs in the way of the will of the people. I came into this particular race, hoping that, believing in democracy, believing in the resilience of the will of the people in Abuja, believing that, especially with the change in the INEC leadership, so I was hoping for something new.
“By 3pm I had already won the elections across board and then magic began to happen. And this is, this is a crazy thing. So not only do I reject the outcome of the results, but I also…it is so disheartening to see the imposition of curfew, to see the mutilations of result, to see how members of the ADC were harassed from different polling booths.
“And I’ve never seen a heightened level of vote buying like we’ve seen in this particular election.”