APC sweeps Borno LG ballot, wins 27 chairmanship seats

The All Progressives Congress has emerged winner of the chairmanship and councillorship elections in all 27 native authorities areas within the December 13 council elections in Borno State.

The listing of chairmen-elect, earlier declared winners by returning officers, was formally introduced by the Chairman of the Borno State Unbiased Electoral Fee (BOSIEC), Alhaji Tahiru Shettima, at a information convention on Monday in Maiduguri.

Shettima stated BOSIEC didn’t create any “roadblock” for political events thinking about contesting the elections.

He stated that regardless of holding a number of conferences with stakeholders, solely six political events participated within the elections.

“I feel the fee has performed its greatest and the election was free, truthful, inclusive, and clear,” the BOSIEC chairman stated.

Shettima insisted that every one BOSIEC returning officers had been individuals of excessive integrity and mental capability, drawn from academia and technocratic backgrounds.

“So, BOSIEC headquarters collected the outcomes as submitted by the returning officers and electoral officers.

“We’ve aggregated all the things for the 27 native authorities areas, and our job this night is to announce the listing of chairmen-elect,” he defined.

The BOSIEC chairman additionally declared that the election was efficiently accomplished, saying the outcomes confirmed it was keenly contested by totally different people.

He, nonetheless, urged the elected chairmen to stay centered and present willpower in offering social facilities on the grassroots degree.

Shettima stated the chairmen-elect also needs to mirror on the voter turnout, which he stated confirmed that native authorities remained closest to the folks, including that grassroots communities had been thinking about political participation at that degree.

He additional thanked the Armed Forces, police, and different safety businesses for his or her help in making certain the graceful conduct of the elections.

The Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) experiences that the election was contested by six political events, together with the All Progressives Congress (APC), New Nigeria Folks’s Party (NNPP), Social Democratic Party (SDP), Labour Party (LP), and Folks’s Redemption Party (PRP).

(NAN)