AMAC at a Turning Point: Why Moses Paul Could Be the Answer
By Jerry Adesewo
For years, the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) has occupied a paradoxical position in Nigeria’s governance story. As the municipal heart of the Federal Capital Territory—home to the seat of the Federal Government—AMAC ought to be a model of efficiency, inclusion, and local development. Instead, it has too often been weighed down by short-sighted leadership, weak service delivery, and an absence of imagination. For many residents, chairmanship elections became rituals without excitement—contests that promised little and delivered even less.
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That mood is changing, and I can feel it strongly.
For the first time in a long while, the AMAC race has produced a name that is stirring genuine conversation, curiosity, and cautious hope: Dr. Moses Paul, the chairmanship candidate of the African Democratic Congress. His emergence has reframed the election from a routine political exercise into a serious civic question: Who can truly fix AMAC—and how?
Who Is Moses Paul?
Dr. Moses Paul—popularly known as Dr. Mo—is not a career politician in the conventional sense. He is a reformer shaped by civic work, a builder of people, and a persistent advocate for accountable governance. As Founder of the Free Nigeria Foundation, he has spent years mobilising citizens, speaking boldly for electoral integrity, and insisting that democracy must work for ordinary people, not just elites.
What distinguishes Dr. Mo is not rhetoric alone but presence. For over a decade, he has worked closely with communities across Abuja Municipal Area Council—particularly rural and peri-urban settlements that rarely feel the impact of government. Through initiatives in youth empowerment, digital literacy, skills acquisition, public health awareness, and community safety, he has earned credibility where it matters most: among everyday residents. To many, he is not “another politician,” but a familiar figure—one who listens, explains, and shows up
Why Paul—and Why Now?
AMAC’s underperformance has never been about lack of potential. It has been about leadership failure: councils disconnected from the people, administrations that see the office as ceremonial rather than transformational, and a neglect of grassroots planning. Dr. Mo’s candidacy directly challenges this pattern.
His decision to run is framed not as personal ambition but as civic duty—an “assignment,” as he describes it, to restore meaning to local governance. He understands something many leaders ignore: that local government is where Nigerians encounter the state most directly. Roads, markets, sanitation, primary healthcare, security coordination—these are AMAC’s responsibilities, and they shape daily life far more than distant federal policies.
Dr. Mo’s governance philosophy is clear and practical, and I have witnessed it first hand. It rests on transparency, equitable development, and the modernization of local administration. He speaks consistently about data-driven planning, accountable budgeting, and participatory decision-making. More importantly, he ties these ideas to concrete outcomes: safer communities, cleaner environments, empowered youth, and local economies that work for artisans, traders, farmers, and small businesses.
A Different Kind of Leadership
There is a moral clarity to Dr. Mo’s public life. A man of faith and intellect, he combines realism with hope—acknowledging AMAC’s deep problems while insisting they are solvable. His speeches do more than excite; they instruct. His advocacy does more than criticise; it proposes. And his plans are framed not as abstract visions but as actionable pathways.
In a political climate often defined by entitlement, Dr. Mo’s message is disarmingly simple: leadership is service. He speaks of returning power, resources, and dignity to the people—of making AMAC a council that works because it listens, and a council that grows because it includes.
An Endorsement Rooted in Possibility
This moment invites a clear choice. AMAC can repeat its familiar cycle of low expectations and limited outcomes, or it can attempt something different—something bolder. Dr. Moses Paul represents that alternative. Not because he claims perfection, but because he offers purpose, competence, and connection to the people he seeks to serve.
In Dr. Mo, AMAC sees more than a candidate. It sees a symbol of what grassroots governance can become when driven by integrity and imagination. A reminder that local leadership matters—and that one committed individual can help awaken the destiny of a community.
For these reasons, and with the future of AMAC in mind, this candidacy deserves not just attention, but support.
AMAC does not need another caretaker.
It needs a builder.
And in Moses Paul, many, like myself now believe, we may have found one.