4th November, 2024
By Ehigimetor Igbaugba,
In what has now become a tradition with council elections across Nigeria, candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in Nasarawa and Cross River were declared winners of all the chairmanship and seats in the local government election conducted in the two states on Saturday.
However, in Nasarawa opposition parties won seven councilorship seats.
According to the Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission (CROSIEC) APC won all 18 chairmanship and 196 councillorship seats in the state.
Dr Ekong Boco, Chairman of the commission, announced the results at the commission’s office in Calabar on Sunday.
The election was conducted in all the 18 local government areas in the state on Saturday.
Boco urged the elected chairmen and councillors to be magnanimous in victory and also give priority to the development of their local governments.
Boco, thereafter, presented certificates of return to the winners.
In the same vein, the Nasarawa State Independent Electoral Commission (NASIEC) declared the 13 chairmanship candidates of APC winners of the Nov. 2 local government election in the state.
Mr Ayuba Wandai, Chairman of the commission and Returning Officer, made the declaration on Sunday at the commission’s office in Lafia.
Wandai also declared that the councillorship candidates of APC won in the 140 electoral wards out of 147 while candidates of opposition parties won seven councillorship seats.
He said that the candidates of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) won one seat in Akwanga, four in Nassarawa-Eggon, while Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) won two in Doma Local Government.
The commission’s chairman explained that nine political parties presented candidates in the local government election.
(NAN)
