APC wins all chairmanship, councillorship positions in Kogi LG election

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won all 21 chairmanship seats and 239 councillorship positions in the Kogi state LGA election.

The polls were held on Saturday across the state’s 21 LGAs and 239 wards.

Mamman Nda-Eri, chairman of the Kogi State Independent Electoral Commission (KOSIEC), announced the results on Sunday after the collation exercise at the commission’s headquarters in Lokoja.

“From the results so far announced by the power conferred on me as the chairman of Kogis state Independent Electoral Commission, I hereby declare that the 21 local governments chairmen have been swept by the APC and 239 wards have been swept also by the APC for the councilorship,” he said.

“They are hereby returned elected as chairman and councilors of the various local governments and various wards in Kogi state.”

This is not the first time the ruling party has dominated an entire local government election.

In June, the APC won all chairmanship and councillorship seats in the Gombe LGA election.

Announcing the outcome, Abdullahi Garba, chairman of the Gombe State Independent Electoral Commission (GOSIEC), had said the ruling party won all 24 chairmanship positions and 240 councillorship seats across the state.

Garba said the election marked the first to be conducted across 24 administrative councils, up from 11 in the previous cycle, following the creation of 13 local council development areas (LCDAs).