The Conference of Professionals in the Peoples Democratic Party (CP-PDP) yesterday hailed the opposition’s party’s victory in the Gwagwalada Area Council chairmanship contest in Saturday’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Council election.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) won the remaining five chairmanship seats – Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Kuje, Abaji, Bwari and Kwali. In a statement, the professionals said the party’s showing in the election had underscored “the undisputed strength and potency of the PDP at the grassroots level across the country”.

According to them, the PDP’s victory has proved that the FCT Minister Nyesom Wike is fast descending into political illusion”. They claimed that the PDP won the other chairmanship seats because of its popularity, but the APC’s tactics stopped the party.

The group said: “The manifest popularity and performance of the PDP in the FCT election despite the serial attacks, threats, intimidation, propaganda, lies and extensive shenanigans by the APC using the instrumentality of the FCT Minister Chief Nyesom Wike, further underscore the undisputed strength and potency of the PDP at the grassroots level across the country.”