The Kebbi State Independent Electoral Commission, on Sunday, declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of Saturday’s local council polls in the state.
The Chairman of the electoral commission, Alhaji Aliyu Muhammad-Mera, who announced the poll results in Birnin Kebbi on Sunday, said the APC won all the 21 chairmanship seats and 225 ward councillors.
Muhammad-Mera said that 17 political parties participated in the polls, including the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), the Labour Party (LP), Boot Party, Social Democratic Party (SDP), among others.
He announced that the commission had ratified and adopted the chairmanship results for the LGs as announced by the various councils’ Returning Officers and the councillorship results as announced at the electoral wards.
Muhammad-Mera expressed joy that the exercise was peaceful and hitch-free and commended the security agencies and all other stakeholders for their invaluable support.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had earlier announced that it would be boycotting the council elections, insinuating that the KESIEC Chairman and his Commissioners were card-carrying members of the APC.
The PDP alleged that the commission’s leadership would not in any way be fair to opposition parties.
