Tag: Council Polls
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PDP sweeps council polls in Enugu State
The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State won all the 17 chairmanship and 260 councillorship seats in the local government elections held in the state on Wednesday. The party beat the 10 other political parties that contested in the council elections with wide margins. Declaring the PDP chairmanship candidates winners at the Enugu…
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Counting, collation of results underway as voting ends in Lagos council polls
Voting has ended in most polling units as vote counting and collation of results got underway after Saturday’s elections into the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Lagos State. The News Agency of Nigeria’s (NAN) correspondents, who monitored the exercise, reports that collations have started at the ward levels where…
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Emmanuel commends peaceful Council polls in Akwa Ibom
Gov. Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom has commended the peaceful conduct of the Local Government Councils’ elections in spite of voters’ apathy. Emmanuel made the commendation while at his polling unit for accreditation and voting at Awa ward 1, Onna Local Government Area on Saturday. He applauded the preparedness of the Akwa Ibom State Independent…
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PDP boycotts Ekiti council polls
The leadership of the People’s Democratic Party in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has said it will boycott the December 7 local government election in the state over alleged plot by Governor Kayode Fayemi to rig the poll. In a statement signed and made available to newsmen in Ado Ekiti by Hon. Yinka Olomofe on behalf of…
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Worrying APC, PDP boycott of council polls, By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon In advance of the 2019 general elections, a trend has developed along with the rush to conduct local government council elections across the states: That’s the tendency of political parties to boycott those elections on rather nebulous excuses. For instance, of the elections conducted since late 2017 in eight states, four…
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No plans to postpone Lagos council polls – LASIEC
The Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) says it has no plan to postpone the July 22 council polls. The Chairman of LASIEC, retired Justice Ayotunde Phillips, said on Saturday that rather than shift the election, preparations had been intensified to ensure that the exercise was successfully conducted. The commission is also stepping up awareness…
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Lagos APC submits candidates’ list for council polls
The Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) has received the list of candidates from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to contest the chairmanship and councillorship seats in next month’s local government elections. A statement yesterday by the party’s state elections committee chairman, Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi, said the party had passed the list to the electoral…
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Late arrival of electoral officers, materials delay Benue council polls
Council elections in Benue on Saturday, commenced behind scheduled time in Makurdi due to late arrival of electoral officials and materials at polling stations. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ex-Servicemen polling unit, where officials and materials arrived first in the state capital, received them at about 11a.m., delaying the exercise by three…
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Lagos council polls: PDP won’t win a single ward – Tinubu
…says APC will clear all 57 LGs Lagosians happy with ‘Ambode’s impressive performance’ The National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Wednesday said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would not record any win in the forthcoming council polls in Lagos State. Tinubu, a former governor of the state,…