Garki Traditional Council Hails FCT Election Winners, Calls For Peace

The secretary of the Garki Traditional Council in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Lazarus Nyaholo, has appealed to political actors in the area to avoid heating up the polity by urging their followers to remain calm and law-abiding in the aftermath of the just-concluded council elections in the nation’s capital.

Nyaholo said the council was impressed by the peaceful atmosphere that prevailed throughout the electioneering and in the conduct of the elections, and wished that the trend be maintained even long after the exercise.

While appealing to the political parties and their flagbearers to “take the outcome of the elections in their stride in the spirit of sportsmanship”, he described the exercise as “yet another major landmark in the political evolution of the council area towards a blossoming democracy and representative governance at the grassroots.”

He commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the security agencies for “a job well-done” by ensuring that the elections were “rancour free thereby leading to an exercise that was credible, free and transparent.”

Nyaholo advised that security and operational lapses observed in the FCT polls should be corrected in good time to enhance a greater level of success and integrity of the 2027 general elections.

The traditional rulers congratulated Mr Christopher Zaka Maikalangu, winner of the election, for what he described as “a well-deserved victory” and urged him to be magnanimous in victory by “extending the olive branch to his opponents for the advancement of all in the area, regardless of ethnic, religious or political affiliations.”