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Local elections in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria were held on 12 February 2022. [1] The three-year tenure of the Six Chairmen and 62 Councillors is set to expire in May 2022. The FCT is the only part of the country where the Independent National Electoral Commission is responsible for the conduct of Local Government election. [2]
Abuja is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria. Situated at the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Planning Associates (IPA), a consortium of three American planning and architecture firms made up of Wallace, Roberts, McHarg & Todd as the lead, Archisystems International, and Planning Research Corporation. The Central Business District of Abuja was designed by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange. It replaced Lagos, the country's most populous city, as the capital on 12 December 1991.
The Federal Capital Territory, commonly known as the FCT, is a federal territory in central Nigeria. Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria, is located in this territory. The FCT was formed in 1976 from parts of the states of old Kaduna, Kwara, Niger, and Plateau states with the bulk of landmass carved out of Niger State. It is within the North Central region of the country. Unlike the states of Nigeria, which are headed by elected Governors, it is administered by the Federal Capital Territory Administration, headed by a minister appointed by the President.
Aliyu Modibbo Umar is a Nigerian technocrat who was the federal Minister of State for Power and Steel from December 2002 to May 2003, Minister of Commerce from July 2006 to July 2007, then Minister for the FCT, a post he held until October 2008.
Democratic Alternative is a Nigerian opposition political party.
Ike Ekweremadulisten is a Nigerian politician and lawyer from Enugu State who has served in the Senate of Nigeria since May 2003. He is a member of the People's Democratic Party, and was the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate for three (3) consecutive senate. On 23 June 2022, Ekweremadu was charged alongside his wife in UK Magistrate’s Court with conspiring to arrange the travel of a 21 year old into the UK in order to harvest organs.
Adamu Muhammad Sidi-Ali is a Nigerian politician and farmer. He has run successfully for the offices of Chairman and for the House of Representatives beginning in the early 2000s. In December 2014, he emerged again as the Senatorial Candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the 2015 elections. He is a native of Abaji Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory.
Nuhu Aliyu Labbo is a Nigerian politician elected to the Senate for the Niger North constituency of Niger State in 1999 and was re-elected in 2003 and 2007.
Kagarko is a Local Government Area in Kaduna State of Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Kagarko. It has an area of 2,356 km2 and a population of 239,058 at the 2006 census. The Local Government Council is chaired by Nasara Rabo. The postal code is 802.
Abaji is a local government area in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, Abuja. The city was the land of the Egbira, Bassa Ganagana, and Hausa people. The majorities were Bassa, Egbira and Ganagana. The first settlement in Abuja are Egbira, Bassa and Tiv people before the Usman Danfodio religious war came to Northcentral, Abuja South.After the kinship throne was won by Egbira people from the Tiv people, they ruled kinship and allow the Hausa to be the Imam of the city the name used to be Igabazi, and is one of the area council in Abuja. Abaji kingdom headed by the Ona of Abaji is the oldest traditional institution in Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria. The land was under the old Koton Karfe kingdom but agreed to join the federal capital territory for developmental purposes. Hon. Abubakar Umar Abdullahi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) became the chairman of Abaji Area Council in the February 12, 2022 chairmanship election of the FCT.
Ehigie Edobor Uzamere is a Nigerian politician who was elected to the Nigerian Senate in 2007 representing the Edo South Senatorial District of Edo State for the People's Democratic Party (PDP).
Gabriel Torwua Suswam is a Nigerian politician and former governor of Benue State. He is a Senator of the 9th assembly, of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed is Nigerian politician who is the Governor of Bauchi State. Prior to becoming governor of Bauchi State, he was Minister of Federal Capital Territory from 2010 to 2015; and a Senator from Bauchi State between 2007 and 2010. He is a ranking member of the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP).He began his civil service experience as an administrative officer at the Federal Ministry of Internal Affairs where he served until 1994 when he moved over to the Presidency [Cabinet Secretariat] as the Principal Administration Officer. Bala Mohammed's rise through the civil service ranks was rapid. Between 1995 and 2005, he rose being the Chief Supplies Officer at the federal Ministry of Solid Minerals - to assistant director at the Federal Ministry of Power and Steel – to Deputy Director/SA to Honorable Minister at the Federal Ministry of Transport – to Director of Administration at the Nigerian Railway Corporations – to Special Assistant to the Honorable Minister of Aviation – to Director of Administration and Supplies at the Nigerian Meteorological Agency. He voluntarily retired from civil service at the level of a director and joined politics.
Philips Tanimu Aduda is a Nigerian politician. He served two terms in the Nigerian House of Representatives between 2003 and 2011, and was elected to the Senate for the Abuja Federal Capital Territory in the 9 April 2011 elections, running on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) ticket.
The Law of Nigeria consists of courts, offences, and various types of laws. Nigeria has its own constitution which was established on 29 May 1999. The Constitution of Nigeria is the supreme law of the country. There are four distinct legal systems in Nigeria, which include English law, Common law, Customary law, and Sharia Law. English law in Nigeria is derived from the colonial Nigeria, while common law is a development from its post colonial independence.
Adekoya Adesegun Abdel-Majid is a Nigerian politician representing Ijebu-North / Ijebu-East / Ogun Waterside Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives in Nigeria. He is a member of the Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) from Ogun State and also a member of the party's National Executive Council.
Olukayode "Kayode" Abraham Ajulo is a Nigerian lawyer, arbitrator, and civil rights activist. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. and the Diocesan Registrar of the Anglican Communion, Church of Nigeria.
The 2019 Nigerian Senate election in the FCT held on February 23, 2019, to elect the member of the Nigerian Senate to represent the Federal Capital Territory. Philips Tanimu Adada representing the FCT senatorial district won on the platform of the People's Democratic Party.
This local electoral calendar for 2022 lists the subnational elections that were and are scheduled to be held in 2022. Referendums, recall and retention elections, and national by-elections are also included. Specific dates are given where these are known.
The 2022 Nigerian elections will be held throughout 2022. During the year, the governors of Ekiti and Osun states will be elected on 18 June and 16 July, respectively. Additionally, there will also be elections to fill vacant seats in the House of Representatives and state houses of assembly along with local elections in Adamawa State, Benue State, Edo State, Enugu State, the Federal Capital Territory, Imo State, Katsina State, and Kebbi State.
The 2023 Nigerian Senate election in the Federal Capital Territory will be held on 25 February 2023, to elect the single federal Senator from the Federal Capital Territory, with the senatorial district being coterminous with the Territory at-large. The election will coincide with the 2023 presidential election, as well as other elections to the Senate and elections to the House of Representatives; with state elections being held two weeks later.
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