The Federal Capital Territory(FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike, on Monday, 29 September, 2025 endorsed the candidature of Christopher Maikalangu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the February 2026 Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) chairmanship election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had last week cleared political parties to commence campaigns ahead of the council polls.
Maikalangu, who currently chairs AMAC, secured the APC ticket after polling 51 votes in the primary election held on June 26, 2025.
Wike, who spoke on Monday, 29 September, 2025 during the flag-off of road projects linking Tunga Madaki and eight other communities to the airport, called on the residents to rally behind the APC candidate.
“Now that INEC has said area councils can go and campaign officially, you all know where we’re heading to. My dear people of Tunga Madaki, I have handed over Maikalangu to you. So that, when the election will be held in February, by June, Mr President will be here to inaugurate this road, and then we will all dance, and dance, and then Mr Maikalangu will come and do the needful after the election,” Wike, a former Rivers State Governor, said.
The Minister, who disclosed that President Bola Tinubu had approved full compensation for the communities affected by the construction of the second runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, also added that the road projects being executed were part of the residents’ demands in exchange for land released for the runway.
“One of the things that the communities asked for was that they have to be connected, they have to be linked up with roads.
“It is quite unfair that they are releasing their land for a second runway, but yet they have no access to even go to the airport. It does not make sense.
“Mr President said, whatever the settlement asks for, give it to them. Today, the 29th of September 2025, we are here to the glory of God and to fulfil the promise made by Mr President to the people of Tunga Madaki settlement,” Wike said.
According to him, completion of the project in June 2026 would transform the communities, describing Tinubu’s administration as “a listening government that cares for the people.”
