As in Imo, Sokoto, Kwara where the ruling APC swept the entire positions and Enugu where the PDP cleared the entire slots, APGA has emerged victorious in the 28 September 2024 local government elections in Anambra State, securing all chairmanship and councillorship seats across the 21 local government areas.
By Emma Ogbuehi
As in Imo, Sokoto, Kwara where the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) swept the entire positions and Enugu where the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cleared the entire slots, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has emerged victorious in the 28 September 2024 local government elections in Anambra State, securing all chairmanship and councillorship seats across the 21 local government areas.
Announcing the results late Sunday at the headquarters of the Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission in Awka, the Commission’s Chairman, Genevieve Osakwe, confirmed APGA’s clean sweep.
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Osakwe declared that APGA candidates won all 21 chairmanship seats and councillorship positions in the state, noting that the results were declared at the ward level.
She described the election as the “fairest,” emphasising that the commission meticulously collated and analysed the results to avoid errors.
“The commission carefully collated and analysed the results to ensure accuracy,” Osakwe said.
She also praised security agencies for maintaining peace and order throughout the electoral process.
She affirmed, “This is to confirm the results of the chairmanship and councillorship elections held on 28 September 2024. The polls were free, fair and credible, and APGA candidates were returned elected, having scored the highest number of votes.”
APGA’s victory in Anambra is in line with the controversial trend by ruling parties in Sokoto, Imo, Kwara and Enugu, on September 21. In Imo State, the APC cleared all the 305 Councillorship and 27 Chairmanship positions in the state’s 27 Local Government Areas. Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commission (ISIEC), Charles Ejiogu, declared the results without announcing the figures polled by the parties that participated in the exercise. He simply announced that “the APC emerged as a winner across the board”, even as the Peoples Democratic Party and other political parties in the state dismissed the exercise as a farce.
In Sokoto, the chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commission, Aliyu Suleiman, announced that the APC won all 23 chairmanship positions and all councillorship seats across the state’s 23 local government areas. Fifteen political parties participated in the elections, but the main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), did not take part.
APC equally clinched all the chairmanship and councillorship positions across the 16 local government councils and 193 wards of Kwara State, according to the Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commission, Mohammed Baba-Okanla.
In Enugu, the Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC) Prof. Christian Ngwu, declared the PDP winner of the entire councils in the state. Candidates of the opposition political parties were absent from the ENSIEC declaration, indicating their disapproval of the outcome.
