New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), has won all 44 Local Government chairmanship seats in the local government election that held on Saturday.
By Emma ogbuehi
In keeping with the trend by the political parties in power in Imo, Benue, Sokoto, Kwara, Enugu and Anambra, the ruling party in Kano, the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), has won all 44 Local Government chairmanship seats in the local government (LG) election that held on Saturday.
The party also swept all the 484 councillorship seats.
The Chairman, Kano State Independent Electoral Commission, KANSIEC, Prof. Sani Lawal Malumfashi stated this while announcing the results at the commission’s headquarters.
Prof. Malumfashi said six political parties namely AA, AAC, Accord, ADC, APM and NNPP participated in the election.
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The Chairman of the electoral body who said the election recorded large turnout of electorates, described the election as largely peaceful in all ramifications.
Prof. Malumfashi commended all those who played critical roles in the conduct of the exercise while thanking the parents and children for not allowing themselves to be used for disrupting the exercise.
According to him, “Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) has exercised and observed its constitutional mandates of planning, organizing, coordinating, observing and conducting Local Government Election in Kano State of Nigeria.
“The exercise had been largely peaceful and successful in all ramifications. The Commission therefore deeply appreciates the roles played by the critical stakeholders, notably security agencies, media organisations, leaders of political parties, civil society organisations, religious leaders, community leaders, youth and women organisations, towards the actualisation of grassroot democracy in the State.
“The peaceful conduct of the exercise is a doubtless manifestation of public acceptability of the exercise in terms of credibility, fairness and decency.
“NNPP won all 44 Local Government Chairmanship and 484 Councillorship Positions contested,” the KANSIEC Chairman, Prof. Malumfashi stated.
It was gathered that the elected local government chairmen and the councillors will be issued certificate on Monday.
NNPP’s victory in Kano 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.