28th February, 2023
By Angela Atabo
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Ireti Kingibe, the candidate of Labour Party (LP) has ended the long stay in the National Assembly of Senator Philip Aduda as the representative of the Federal Capital Territory.
Aduda, who started his political career in 1996 as a councilor was first elected to the National Assembly as Member of the House of Representatives for AMAC/Bwari in Abuja in 2003.
He was re-elected to the Green chamber in 2008.
He, however, crossed to the senate, contested and won the senatorial seat for the FCT in 2011. He was reelected as the senator representing the FCT in 2015 and 2019.
However, Aduda on Tuesday become one of the lawmakers swept away by hurricane Labour Party which has already kicked many of his colleagues, especially from the Southeast part of the country out of the two chambers of National Assembly.
Aduda, who is the Senate Minority Whip like his Southeast colleagues lost his bid to return to the National Assembly to Labour Party.
He was massively defeated by Ireti of Labour Party in last Saturday’s national assembly election.
The Labour Party candidate scored 202,175 to defeat Aduda who garnered 100,544 votes in the election, according to results declared by INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Sanni Saka of the University of Abuja.
“I Prof. Sanni Saka thereby certify that I am the Returning Officer for the 2023 FCT Senatorial district election held on Feb. 25.
“The election was contested, and the candidates received the votes as announced.
“That Ireti Kingibe having satisfied the requirement of the law has been declared the winner,” Saka said.
He said that the problem with the Bwari result that was earlier canceled was rectified and the result certified as valid.
He however, said that the result for Abaji remained canceled because the problem had not been sorted out.
However, Sulieman Ango, the APC agent and that of PDP Mr Abdulrahman Mohammed refused to sign the result sheet saying it was not authentic.
(NAN)