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They came with pens and correction fluid. Not guns, not soldiers — just ink, Tipp-Ex, and the quiet confidence of people who knew nobody would stop them. Across polling units in Abuja Municipal Area Council, official INEC result sheets from the February 21, 2026 FCT Area Council Elections were altered to swing votes massively in favour of the APC. Numbers were crossed out and replaced. Figures were inflated beyond what mathematics or voter turnout could possibly justify. In one case, a candidate's votes were wiped off entirely with correction fluid, as cleanly as if they had never existed. This is the story of how an election was stolen in Nigeria's capital city, and why it matters far beyond Abuja.


The Results That Don't Add Up

At Kutunku Women Centre in Gwagwalada, Polling Unit 025, the unit had 106 accredited voters and 105 total valid votes. Those numbers are fixed. They cannot stretch. Yet according to the official INEC Form EC 8A with Serial Number 0000081, APC's recorded votes were changed from 6 to 67, while ADC's votes were slashed from 10 to just 1. In a polling unit with 105 valid votes, APC jumped from 6 percent of the vote to over 60 percent. Sixty-one votes appeared from nowhere. Nine ADC votes simply disappeared.

At Piwoyi Primary School II in Gwarinpa, Polling Unit 157, Serial Number 0000802, the unit had 94 accredited voters and 93 valid votes. APC received zero votes from the people at this polling unit. Not a disappointing performance. Not a bad day. Zero. Yet the figure submitted shows 80 votes for APC, representing 86 percent of the entire unit. At the same time, ADC's score was cut from 17 to just 6. In a 93-vote polling unit, 80 votes for a party that received none is not a clerical error. It is a manufactured result.

At Enugu Street by Habadan in Garki, Polling Unit 036, Serial Number 0000187, no pen was needed. The method chosen here was correction fluid. A screenshot shared on X by journalist Morris Monye shows the INEC IREV portal entry for this unit with 54 accredited voters. ADC's figure was not crossed out or reduced. It was obliterated. White correction fluid was applied directly to an official electoral document, and the votes beneath it were erased from existence. This is not sloppiness. This is destruction of evidence on a government form.

At Jabi Maje Primary School in Gwarinpa, Polling Unit 015, Serial Number 0000660, the unit had 138 accredited voters and 135 valid votes. APC's votes went from 8 to 86, a jump of 78 votes. That single inflation handed APC nearly 58 percent of every vote cast in that unit from a party that reportedly earned fewer than 10.

At Karshi II, Market Square Karshi, Polling Unit 002, Serial Number 0000996, the unit recorded 227 accredited voters and 224 valid votes. APC scored 1 vote at this unit. Just one. That single vote was transformed into 179. One hundred and seventy-eight votes were added to a party that the voters of Karshi II overwhelmingly rejected. NNPP's 73 and PDP's 12 look credible against that turnout. APC's 179 does not.

These are not isolated incidents scattered randomly across the map. They are a pattern, running through Gwagwalada, Gwarinpa, Garki and Karshi, covering different wards, different presiding officers and different parts of the municipal area, all bending in the same direction and all benefiting the same party.


Why the Collation Centre, Not the Booth

None of these alterations happened at the polling booth where party agents, INEC officials and members of the public were watching. They happened during collation, in a controlled environment with far fewer witnesses and far less scrutiny. This is not a coincidence. It is a structural vulnerability that was deliberately preserved.

Real-time electronic transmission of results was designed to close exactly this gap. When a presiding officer uploads figures directly from the polling unit the moment counting ends, those numbers are timestamped, locked and public before anyone can touch them. The push to remove mandatory electronic transmission from Nigeria's Electoral Act was fought over loudly and publicly. Those who removed it said it was about logistics. Critics said it was about opportunity. The result sheets coming out of AMAC polling units in 2026 confirm which side was telling the truth.


The INEC Delay and What It Signals

While results from other FCT area councils were announced, the Abuja Municipal results were held back. INEC declared APC victorious elsewhere while AMAC sat in limbo. The official explanation was administrative. Observers tracking the figures believe the delay served a different purpose, creating time to ensure the submitted tallies were internally consistent before formal announcement. When the results finally arrived, APC had won Municipal too. The timing of that announcement, coming after every other result had been declared, raised questions that have not been answered.


Vote Buying and the Tribalism Weapon

On the ground during the election, something else was happening that veteran Abuja observers say they had never witnessed at this scale. Vote buying was open and unapologetic, cash exchanging hands in public queues without pretence. Abuja's electorate has historically been different, more civic-minded, more resistant to the transactional politics common in other states. That resistance was targeted deliberately and systematically.

Alongside the money came messaging. The ADC candidate was not an FCT indigene, and APC-aligned voices made sure voters knew it. Yet in 2023, Ireti Kingibe, also not an FCT indigene, won in Abuja and nobody raised the question. The indigene argument only became relevant in 2026 when it was useful. Introducing ethnic identity politics into federal capital territory is not just a campaign tactic. It is an attack on the foundational idea that Abuja belongs to all Nigerians.


The Real Stakes: 2027

This election was never just about who chairs Abuja Municipal. It was a test. A dry run for 2027, conducted in the most visible and scrutinised political environment in Nigeria, to see what could be gotten away with and how cleanly it could be done.

APC currently controls around 30 state governments and the number keeps rising as politicians calculate where safety lies before the next presidential cycle. Each governor commands state machinery, local government structures and party networks. If result sheets can be altered at collation in Nigeria's capital, with civil society watching and journalists present, what happens across 30 states where access is harder, witnesses are fewer and the press is thinner on the ground?

The correction fluid used on that Enugu Street result sheet dried quickly. The votes underneath it are gone. Whether the people responsible for what happened across these polling units face any consequences will determine whether this was a one-time crime or the opening chapter of something far more dangerous in 2027.

Source: https://avalanchemediablog.com/article.html?slug=from-zero-to-179-how-apc-manufactured-a-victory-across-abuja-municipal-polling-units

We are in trouble. People keep defending this government.

I have said it many times here that the losers are coming to complain and wail. They are coming to look for their stolen manhood. Immediately after any election, the rush here to cry foul. An election or court judgment they loose is marginalized to them.

Wow! Beautiful observations! Now I would advise you gather all these evidence and head to court. Don't take it to any media house. Just keep it close to your heart and use it as the main arsenal to turn this election around.

Any other thing beyond that is playing to the gallery.

Ire o!

So how did you get all these results. ? Where are the evidence?. Don't allege what you can't prove

You are a bloody liar. We never experienced any of your 0b1d1ot narrative in Kubwa. The election was 99% perfect.
Tell your master that you failed to sell the bitter narrative written for you.

avalancheMedia:
They came with pens and correction fluid. Not guns, not soldiers — just ink, Tipp-Ex, and the quiet confidence of people who knew nobody would stop them. Across polling units in Abuja Municipal Area Council, official INEC result sheets from the February 21, 2026 FCT Area Council Elections were altered to swing votes massively in favour of the APC. Numbers were crossed out and replaced. Figures were inflated beyond what mathematics or voter turnout could possibly justify. In one case, a candidate's votes were wiped off entirely with correction fluid, as cleanly as if they had never existed. This is the story of how an election was stolen in Nigeria's capital city, and why it matters far beyond Abuja.


The Results That Don't Add Up

At Kutunku Women Centre in Gwagwalada, Polling Unit 025, the unit had 106 accredited voters and 105 total valid votes. Those numbers are fixed. They cannot stretch. Yet according to the official INEC Form EC 8A with Serial Number 0000081, APC's recorded votes were changed from 6 to 67, while ADC's votes were slashed from 10 to just 1. In a polling unit with 105 valid votes, APC jumped from 6 percent of the vote to over 60 percent. Sixty-one votes appeared from nowhere. Nine ADC votes simply disappeared.

At Piwoyi Primary School II in Gwarinpa, Polling Unit 157, Serial Number 0000802, the unit had 94 accredited voters and 93 valid votes. APC received zero votes from the people at this polling unit. Not a disappointing performance. Not a bad day. Zero. Yet the figure submitted shows 80 votes for APC, representing 86 percent of the entire unit. At the same time, ADC's score was cut from 17 to just 6. In a 93-vote polling unit, 80 votes for a party that received none is not a clerical error. It is a manufactured result.

At Enugu Street by Habadan in Garki, Polling Unit 036, Serial Number 0000187, no pen was needed. The method chosen here was correction fluid. A screenshot shared on X by journalist Morris Monye shows the INEC IREV portal entry for this unit with 54 accredited voters. ADC's figure was not crossed out or reduced. It was obliterated. White correction fluid was applied directly to an official electoral document, and the votes beneath it were erased from existence. This is not sloppiness. This is destruction of evidence on a government form.

At Jabi Maje Primary School in Gwarinpa, Polling Unit 015, Serial Number 0000660, the unit had 138 accredited voters and 135 valid votes. APC's votes went from 8 to 86, a jump of 78 votes. That single inflation handed APC nearly 58 percent of every vote cast in that unit from a party that reportedly earned fewer than 10.

At Karshi II, Market Square Karshi, Polling Unit 002, Serial Number 0000996, the unit recorded 227 accredited voters and 224 valid votes. APC scored 1 vote at this unit. Just one. That single vote was transformed into 179. One hundred and seventy-eight votes were added to a party that the voters of Karshi II overwhelmingly rejected. NNPP's 73 and PDP's 12 look credible against that turnout. APC's 179 does not.

These are not isolated incidents scattered randomly across the map. They are a pattern, running through Gwagwalada, Gwarinpa, Garki and Karshi, covering different wards, different presiding officers and different parts of the municipal area, all bending in the same direction and all benefiting the same party.


Why the Collation Centre, Not the Booth

None of these alterations happened at the polling booth where party agents, INEC officials and members of the public were watching. They happened during collation, in a controlled environment with far fewer witnesses and far less scrutiny. This is not a coincidence. It is a structural vulnerability that was deliberately preserved.

Real-time electronic transmission of results was designed to close exactly this gap. When a presiding officer uploads figures directly from the polling unit the moment counting ends, those numbers are timestamped, locked and public before anyone can touch them. The push to remove mandatory electronic transmission from Nigeria's Electoral Act was fought over loudly and publicly. Those who removed it said it was about logistics. Critics said it was about opportunity. The result sheets coming out of AMAC polling units in 2026 confirm which side was telling the truth.


The INEC Delay and What It Signals

While results from other FCT area councils were announced, the Abuja Municipal results were held back. INEC declared APC victorious elsewhere while AMAC sat in limbo. The official explanation was administrative. Observers tracking the figures believe the delay served a different purpose, creating time to ensure the submitted tallies were internally consistent before formal announcement. When the results finally arrived, APC had won Municipal too. The timing of that announcement, coming after every other result had been declared, raised questions that have not been answered.


Vote Buying and the Tribalism Weapon

On the ground during the election, something else was happening that veteran Abuja observers say they had never witnessed at this scale. Vote buying was open and unapologetic, cash exchanging hands in public queues without pretence. Abuja's electorate has historically been different, more civic-minded, more resistant to the transactional politics common in other states. That resistance was targeted deliberately and systematically.

Alongside the money came messaging. The ADC candidate was not an FCT indigene, and APC-aligned voices made sure voters knew it. Yet in 2023, Ireti Kingibe, also not an FCT indigene, won in Abuja and nobody raised the question. The indigene argument only became relevant in 2026 when it was useful. Introducing ethnic identity politics into federal capital territory is not just a campaign tactic. It is an attack on the foundational idea that Abuja belongs to all Nigerians.


The Real Stakes: 2027

This election was never just about who chairs Abuja Municipal. It was a test. A dry run for 2027, conducted in the most visible and scrutinised political environment in Nigeria, to see what could be gotten away with and how cleanly it could be done.

APC currently controls around 30 state governments and the number keeps rising as politicians calculate where safety lies before the next presidential cycle. Each governor commands state machinery, local government structures and party networks. If result sheets can be altered at collation in Nigeria's capital, with civil society watching and journalists present, what happens across 30 states where access is harder, witnesses are fewer and the press is thinner on the ground?

The correction fluid used on that Enugu Street result sheet dried quickly. The votes underneath it are gone. Whether the people responsible for what happened across these polling units face any consequences will determine whether this was a one-time crime or the opening chapter of something far more dangerous in 2027.

Source: https://avalanchemediablog.com/article.html?slug=from-zero-to-179-how-apc-manufactured-a-victory-across-abuja-municipal-polling-units

They will fabricate their baseless allegations,instead to accept defeat.we told them that they are only over estimating their worth,after paying social media content creators to push useless narratives online,they will get to polling units and they are next to zero

So what was the cause of the fight and insult among themselves yesterday on X after the defeat. Were they not blaming themselves for the poor outing? Where is this heap of rubbish now coming from? To blame Tinubu as usual?

Until the DSS start picking this guys for misinformation.

NaijaHelper1:
We are in trouble. People keep defending this government.

Your family is in trouble ! So na new propangandas be this??

Instead of posting people's faces, the op should have posted the alleged mutilated result sheets.

Nature will never forgive Wike and the former governor of Lagos for all the destructions in Nigeria.

Losers that were busy playing football instead of going to votes, is here claiming rigging after election.

Same old tears from Obidients and Peter Gringory Obi
I really enjoy seeing you guys lose after making so much noise on social media.

This is the next stage of grieving. After this, they'd go into blame games, and then final acceptance.

Okoroawusa:
Wow! Beautiful observations! Now I would advise you gather all these evidence and head to court. Don't take it to any media house. Just keep it close to your heart and use it as the main arsenal to turn this election around.

Any other thing beyond that is playing to the gallery.

Ire o!

Which court?

Tinubu's court?

You don’t want real-time transmission again?

NaijaHelper1:
We are in trouble. People keep defending this government.

Dapada!
YOU are in trouble; not WE.

NaijaHelper1:
We are in trouble. People keep defending this government.

y


You and yours are in trouble bro, you and your kin.

The election losers should rest.

Nobody is interested in una jargons

Any election not in their favour must ha e been manipulated even with their poor preparation

Avalanchemedia ko, tornado blog ni

Radarada

omenka:
This is the next stage of grieving. After this, they'd go into blame games, and then final acceptance.

Those people are not even aware that they are casted with their fabricated stories

Same bull crap method for years yet expecting miracle different results

NaijaHelper1:
We are in trouble. People keep defending this government.

YOU are in trouble.

Xscape1993:
Nature will never forgive Wike and the former governor of Lagos for all the destructions in Nigeria.

Nor be una dey make APC more popular by frequent mentioning of the name?

Continue

Also, your team is poor in strategy and cohesiveness. Let the truth be told.

NaijaHelper1:
We are in trouble. People keep defending this government.

The election losers are in trouble as the losing in 2027 is inevitable

avalancheMedia:
They came with pens and correction fluid. Not guns, not soldiers — just ink, Tipp-Ex, and the quiet confidence of people who knew nobody would stop them.

Source: https://avalanchemediablog.com/article.html?slug=from-zero-to-179-how-apc-manufactured-a-victory-across-abuja-municipal-polling-units

Until you Obidients accept the fact that you are a noisy minority and lose gracefully instead of making wild spurious claims solely based on fantasy, losing in elections will continue to be your portion.

Bia, just enter house.

avalancheMedia:
They came with pens and correction fluid. Not guns, not soldiers — just ink, Tipp-Ex, and the quiet confidence of people who knew nobody would stop them. Across polling units in Abuja Municipal Area Council, official INEC result sheets from the February 21, 2026 FCT Area Council Elections were altered to swing votes massively in favour of the APC. Numbers were crossed out and replaced. Figures were inflated beyond what mathematics or voter turnout could possibly justify. In one case, a candidate's votes were wiped off entirely with correction fluid, as cleanly as if they had never existed. This is the story of how an election was stolen in Nigeria's capital city, and why it matters far beyond Abuja.


The Results That Don't Add Up

At Kutunku Women Centre in Gwagwalada, Polling Unit 025, the unit had 106 accredited voters and 105 total valid votes. Those numbers are fixed. They cannot stretch. Yet according to the official INEC Form EC 8A with Serial Number 0000081, APC's recorded votes were changed from 6 to 67, while ADC's votes were slashed from 10 to just 1. In a polling unit with 105 valid votes, APC jumped from 6 percent of the vote to over 60 percent. Sixty-one votes appeared from nowhere. Nine ADC votes simply disappeared.

At Piwoyi Primary School II in Gwarinpa, Polling Unit 157, Serial Number 0000802, the unit had 94 accredited voters and 93 valid votes. APC received zero votes from the people at this polling unit. Not a disappointing performance. Not a bad day. Zero. Yet the figure submitted shows 80 votes for APC, representing 86 percent of the entire unit. At the same time, ADC's score was cut from 17 to just 6. In a 93-vote polling unit, 80 votes for a party that received none is not a clerical error. It is a manufactured result.

At Enugu Street by Habadan in Garki, Polling Unit 036, Serial Number 0000187, no pen was needed. The method chosen here was correction fluid. A screenshot shared on X by journalist Morris Monye shows the INEC IREV portal entry for this unit with 54 accredited voters. ADC's figure was not crossed out or reduced. It was obliterated. White correction fluid was applied directly to an official electoral document, and the votes beneath it were erased from existence. This is not sloppiness. This is destruction of evidence on a government form.

At Jabi Maje Primary School in Gwarinpa, Polling Unit 015, Serial Number 0000660, the unit had 138 accredited voters and 135 valid votes. APC's votes went from 8 to 86, a jump of 78 votes. That single inflation handed APC nearly 58 percent of every vote cast in that unit from a party that reportedly earned fewer than 10.

At Karshi II, Market Square Karshi, Polling Unit 002, Serial Number 0000996, the unit recorded 227 accredited voters and 224 valid votes. APC scored 1 vote at this unit. Just one. That single vote was transformed into 179. One hundred and seventy-eight votes were added to a party that the voters of Karshi II overwhelmingly rejected. NNPP's 73 and PDP's 12 look credible against that turnout. APC's 179 does not.

These are not isolated incidents scattered randomly across the map. They are a pattern, running through Gwagwalada, Gwarinpa, Garki and Karshi, covering different wards, different presiding officers and different parts of the municipal area, all bending in the same direction and all benefiting the same party.


Why the Collation Centre, Not the Booth

None of these alterations happened at the polling booth where party agents, INEC officials and members of the public were watching. They happened during collation, in a controlled environment with far fewer witnesses and far less scrutiny. This is not a coincidence. It is a structural vulnerability that was deliberately preserved.

Real-time electronic transmission of results was designed to close exactly this gap. When a presiding officer uploads figures directly from the polling unit the moment counting ends, those numbers are timestamped, locked and public before anyone can touch them. The push to remove mandatory electronic transmission from Nigeria's Electoral Act was fought over loudly and publicly. Those who removed it said it was about logistics. Critics said it was about opportunity. The result sheets coming out of AMAC polling units in 2026 confirm which side was telling the truth.


The INEC Delay and What It Signals

While results from other FCT area councils were announced, the Abuja Municipal results were held back. INEC declared APC victorious elsewhere while AMAC sat in limbo. The official explanation was administrative. Observers tracking the figures believe the delay served a different purpose, creating time to ensure the submitted tallies were internally consistent before formal announcement. When the results finally arrived, APC had won Municipal too. The timing of that announcement, coming after every other result had been declared, raised questions that have not been answered.


Vote Buying and the Tribalism Weapon

On the ground during the election, something else was happening that veteran Abuja observers say they had never witnessed at this scale. Vote buying was open and unapologetic, cash exchanging hands in public queues without pretence. Abuja's electorate has historically been different, more civic-minded, more resistant to the transactional politics common in other states. That resistance was targeted deliberately and systematically.

Alongside the money came messaging. The ADC candidate was not an FCT indigene, and APC-aligned voices made sure voters knew it. Yet in 2023, Ireti Kingibe, also not an FCT indigene, won in Abuja and nobody raised the question. The indigene argument only became relevant in 2026 when it was useful. Introducing ethnic identity politics into federal capital territory is not just a campaign tactic. It is an attack on the foundational idea that Abuja belongs to all Nigerians.


The Real Stakes: 2027

This election was never just about who chairs Abuja Municipal. It was a test. A dry run for 2027, conducted in the most visible and scrutinised political environment in Nigeria, to see what could be gotten away with and how cleanly it could be done.

APC currently controls around 30 state governments and the number keeps rising as politicians calculate where safety lies before the next presidential cycle. Each governor commands state machinery, local government structures and party networks. If result sheets can be altered at collation in Nigeria's capital, with civil society watching and journalists present, what happens across 30 states where access is harder, witnesses are fewer and the press is thinner on the ground?

The correction fluid used on that Enugu Street result sheet dried quickly. The votes underneath it are gone. Whether the people responsible for what happened across these polling units face any consequences will determine whether this was a one-time crime or the opening chapter of something far more dangerous in 2027.

Source: https://avalanchemediablog.com/article.html?slug=from-zero-to-179-how-apc-manufactured-a-victory-across-abuja-municipal-polling-units

This propagandist is @CryptoVerse36 on twitter

PDPdestroyer:
This propagandist is @CryptoVerse36 on twitter

That person has been trying to undermine the outcome of the FCT election results since morning coming up with so many ridiculous excuses

Globad:
YOU are in trouble.

Forgive him for improper use of preposition, he's one of village boys.

You guys should just forget it. When Peter Obi, Atiku and ADC couldn't mobilize Nigerians to stop the criminal National Assembly, I knew it was over for them.

madridguy:
Until the DSS start picking this guys for misinformation.

no, let them start picking Lakaruwa Boko Haram and ISWAP first.

avalancheMedia:
They came with pens and correction fluid. Not guns, not soldiers — just ink, Tipp-Ex, and the quiet confidence of people who knew nobody would stop them. Across polling units in Abuja Municipal Area Council, official INEC result sheets from the February 21, 2026 FCT Area Council Elections were altered to swing votes massively in favour of the APC. Numbers were crossed out and replaced. Figures were inflated beyond what mathematics or voter turnout could possibly justify. In one case, a candidate's votes were wiped off entirely with correction fluid, as cleanly as if they had never existed. This is the story of how an election was stolen in Nigeria's capital city, and why it matters far beyond Abuja.


The Results That Don't Add Up

At Kutunku Women Centre in Gwagwalada, Polling Unit 025, the unit had 106 accredited voters and 105 total valid votes. Those numbers are fixed. They cannot stretch. Yet according to the official INEC Form EC 8A with Serial Number 0000081, APC's recorded votes were changed from 6 to 67, while ADC's votes were slashed from 10 to just 1. In a polling unit with 105 valid votes, APC jumped from 6 percent of the vote to over 60 percent. Sixty-one votes appeared from nowhere. Nine ADC votes simply disappeared.

At Piwoyi Primary School II in Gwarinpa, Polling Unit 157, Serial Number 0000802, the unit had 94 accredited voters and 93 valid votes. APC received zero votes from the people at this polling unit. Not a disappointing performance. Not a bad day. Zero. Yet the figure submitted shows 80 votes for APC, representing 86 percent of the entire unit. At the same time, ADC's score was cut from 17 to just 6. In a 93-vote polling unit, 80 votes for a party that received none is not a clerical error. It is a manufactured result.

At Enugu Street by Habadan in Garki, Polling Unit 036, Serial Number 0000187, no pen was needed. The method chosen here was correction fluid. A screenshot shared on X by journalist Morris Monye shows the INEC IREV portal entry for this unit with 54 accredited voters. ADC's figure was not crossed out or reduced. It was obliterated. White correction fluid was applied directly to an official electoral document, and the votes beneath it were erased from existence. This is not sloppiness. This is destruction of evidence on a government form.

At Jabi Maje Primary School in Gwarinpa, Polling Unit 015, Serial Number 0000660, the unit had 138 accredited voters and 135 valid votes. APC's votes went from 8 to 86, a jump of 78 votes. That single inflation handed APC nearly 58 percent of every vote cast in that unit from a party that reportedly earned fewer than 10.

At Karshi II, Market Square Karshi, Polling Unit 002, Serial Number 0000996, the unit recorded 227 accredited voters and 224 valid votes. APC scored 1 vote at this unit. Just one. That single vote was transformed into 179. One hundred and seventy-eight votes were added to a party that the voters of Karshi II overwhelmingly rejected. NNPP's 73 and PDP's 12 look credible against that turnout. APC's 179 does not.

These are not isolated incidents scattered randomly across the map. They are a pattern, running through Gwagwalada, Gwarinpa, Garki and Karshi, covering different wards, different presiding officers and different parts of the municipal area, all bending in the same direction and all benefiting the same party.


Why the Collation Centre, Not the Booth

None of these alterations happened at the polling booth where party agents, INEC officials and members of the public were watching. They happened during collation, in a controlled environment with far fewer witnesses and far less scrutiny. This is not a coincidence. It is a structural vulnerability that was deliberately preserved.

Real-time electronic transmission of results was designed to close exactly this gap. When a presiding officer uploads figures directly from the polling unit the moment counting ends, those numbers are timestamped, locked and public before anyone can touch them. The push to remove mandatory electronic transmission from Nigeria's Electoral Act was fought over loudly and publicly. Those who removed it said it was about logistics. Critics said it was about opportunity. The result sheets coming out of AMAC polling units in 2026 confirm which side was telling the truth.


The INEC Delay and What It Signals

While results from other FCT area councils were announced, the Abuja Municipal results were held back. INEC declared APC victorious elsewhere while AMAC sat in limbo. The official explanation was administrative. Observers tracking the figures believe the delay served a different purpose, creating time to ensure the submitted tallies were internally consistent before formal announcement. When the results finally arrived, APC had won Municipal too. The timing of that announcement, coming after every other result had been declared, raised questions that have not been answered.


Vote Buying and the Tribalism Weapon

On the ground during the election, something else was happening that veteran Abuja observers say they had never witnessed at this scale. Vote buying was open and unapologetic, cash exchanging hands in public queues without pretence. Abuja's electorate has historically been different, more civic-minded, more resistant to the transactional politics common in other states. That resistance was targeted deliberately and systematically.

Alongside the money came messaging. The ADC candidate was not an FCT indigene, and APC-aligned voices made sure voters knew it. Yet in 2023, Ireti Kingibe, also not an FCT indigene, won in Abuja and nobody raised the question. The indigene argument only became relevant in 2026 when it was useful. Introducing ethnic identity politics into federal capital territory is not just a campaign tactic. It is an attack on the foundational idea that Abuja belongs to all Nigerians.


The Real Stakes: 2027

This election was never just about who chairs Abuja Municipal. It was a test. A dry run for 2027, conducted in the most visible and scrutinised political environment in Nigeria, to see what could be gotten away with and how cleanly it could be done.

APC currently controls around 30 state governments and the number keeps rising as politicians calculate where safety lies before the next presidential cycle. Each governor commands state machinery, local government structures and party networks. If result sheets can be altered at collation in Nigeria's capital, with civil society watching and journalists present, what happens across 30 states where access is harder, witnesses are fewer and the press is thinner on the ground?

The correction fluid used on that Enugu Street result sheet dried quickly. The votes underneath it are gone. Whether the people responsible for what happened across these polling units face any consequences will determine whether this was a one-time crime or the opening chapter of something far more dangerous in 2027.

Source: https://avalanchemediablog.com/article.html?slug=from-zero-to-179-how-apc-manufactured-a-victory-across-abuja-municipal-polling-units

So that is also the reason Peter obi also lost his polling unit to soludo (Apga).

Instead of advising obi that he is already a spent force.

You are here writing gibberish.

You bunch of irritatingly annoying obidients will never stop to amaze people.
If they did so how come there's no difference in figures in copies with party agents ?
How come the figures e-transmitted to Irev corresponded with tallies submitted to the situation rooms by party agents ?
You are such demented clowns that there's no tolerating you
If you know that your pedigree cannot absorb the shock of defeats, don't participate in elections.

This highlights the necessity for laws against the misuse of social media.
Posters of fake news such as this deserve sanctions except they be able to prove their case which is impossible, anyway.