APC wins all seats in Ebonyi local elections

Summary

The APC won all 13 chairmanship and 171 councillorship seats in Ebonyi State’s local government elections, while opposition parties rejected the exercise.

Highlights

• Ebonyi State Independent Electoral Commission chairman Patrick Enyi announced the results in Abakaliki on Sunday.
• The APC won all 13 chairmanship and 171 councillorship seats in the 22 August polls.
• The News Agency of Nigeria reported that no other political party participated in the council elections.
• The PDP and the All Progressives Grand Alliance in Ebonyi described the exercise as a “mono-party poll” and rejected the outcome.
• PDP spokesman Darlington Onwe said the party considered the exercise “not an election at all.”