True to predictions, candidates of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have won all the seats in local council elections conducted weekend in Adamawa and Delta States.
The party clinched all the 21 chairman seats in Adamawa State even as the State Independent Electoral Commission indicated that all the councillorship seats were also won by the ruling PDP in the 226 wards except the Demsa Ward, Demsa Local Government Area where the New Nigeria People’s Party won one councillorship seat.
The Chairman, Mohammed Umar said the ruling party won overwhelmingly in all the 21 local government councils of the state. He announced the results on Sunday evening at the commission’s headquarters in Yola, the state capital.
Umar said out of the 19 registered political parties in the state, 12 participated in the exercise.
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In Delta State, the PDP won all 25 local government chairmanship seats in the election conducted on Saturday.
The Chairman of the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, Jerry Agbaike, on Sunday, said one of PDP candidate was returned unopposed.
PDP candidates contested against other parties and emerged winners in the 24 local government areas where the elections were conducted. However, there were no election in the Udu Local Government Area as the chairmanship candidate of the PDP, Vincent Oyibode, returned unopposed.
The local council elections in Adamawa and Delta States came closely on the heels of the Supreme Court judgment which granted financial autonomy to the third tier of government, ordering the Federal Government to pay the 20.60% monthly allocation of the 774 LGs in the country directly to their exclusive accounts and not to accounts controlled by governors.
The apex court in the landmark judgement on Thursday also barred power-drunk governors from dissolving democratically elected local government councils.
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