Elections were not held in Nnewi North Local Government Area

The ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Anambra has won 20 chairmanship seats out of 21 in Saturday’s local government elections in the state.

The Acting Chairman of the Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission, ANSIEC, Sylvester Okonkwo, announced the results in Awka on Sunday
Mr. Okonkwo said the elections were not conducted in Nnewi North Local Government Area due to the late arrival of materials in the area.

He said it was unanimously agreed by parties that the election be conducted on January 18.

He said that APGA won a total of 304 councillorship seats out of the 327 wards in the state.

He announced that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, won 12 councillorship seats while the Progressives Peoples Alliance, PPA, and United Progressives Party, UPP, secured one councillorship seat each.

Mr. Okonkwo commended the people of the state for eschewing violence before, during and after the polls. He however mentioned that there was a report of interception of a vehicle conveying election materials. He urged those who were aggrieved with the outcome of the election to go to court.

The chairman recalled that local council election was last conducted in the state in 1998 while attempts to conduct the poll before Saturday had met brick walls.

He noted that attempts were made in December 1998, December 4, 2004, February 2005, November 2011, October 5, 2013, December 14, 2013 and December 21, 2013 before it was finally conducted on Jan. 11.

In his reaction, the Chairman of APGA in the state, Mike Kwentor, ascribed the party’s victory to the infrastructural development of the state by the governor, Peter Obi.

Mr. Kwentor said the party was not bothered by the postponement of the election in Nnewi North, boasting that the party will win the election when conducted.

“That other political parties got pockets of victories show that there is democracy in Anambra. Grassroots democracy is the election of villagers and commoners, so depending on the credibility of the candidate, villagers voted their choice,” he said.

Also reacting, Jude Mbaegbu, the chairman-elect of Ekwusigo Local Government Area, promised good governance to the people of his area, appealing to the opposition to support his administration.

(NAN)

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Seun nlfpmod mynd44 do the needful

This thread is in response to the ignorant post from Reno Omokiri that Peter Obi did not conduct Local Govt Elecions as a Governor. Its unfortunate how low and desperate Reno and his co travellers have descended in try to tarnish the clean image of Peter Obi. As a matter of fact, the last local govt elections in Anambra was conducted by Peter Obi

Don't give Rhino any attention

3 months to the expiration of his second term

Reno is right, Pitobi refused to conduct LG election for 98% of his time in office.

JAMO84:
3 months to the expiration of his second term

Reno is right, Pitobi refused to conduct LG election for 98% of his time in office.

But no election has ever been conducted at all in the state before that. He is the jinx breaker. Meanwhile Ngige was governor when others started local government election in 2004 but he was busy fighting with godfathers over his stolen mandate, he is now in APC

After withholding the LG funds for over 6 years

XerXers:

But no election has ever been conducted at all in the state before that. He is the jinx breaker. Meanwhile Ngige was governor when others started local government election in 2004 but he was busy fighting with godfathers over his stolen mandate, he is now in APC

Get your facts rights, INEC Conducted LGA election into the 774 LGAs in the country in 1998
It was OBJ that ammend the constitution that gave birth to state electoral commissions and this is because he wanted to get the 2nd term ticket in PDP. And that is part of the conditions the state governors gave him.
So how can you say there's never LGA election in Anambra before Obi?

JAMO84:
3 months to the expiration of his second term

Reno is right, Pitobi refused to conduct LG election for 98% of his time in office.

Nah only fool go fall for this obimumu's follower post... Obidaft is a disaster that must not happen to this country