The Peoples Democratic Party has won all seats in Saturday’s Local Government elections in Delta and Adamawa States.
In Adamawa state, the PDP won all 21 council seats while in Delta state, the party won the 25 seats contested for in the election.
In Delta state, the election was contested by ten political parties, who fielded candidates for chairmanship and councillorship positions.
Declaring the results, the Chief Electoral Officer and Chairman of Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, Dr Raphael Agbaike, said the PDP contested and won in 24 LGs in the July 13 2024 election.
“However, the chairmanship candidate of the PDP in Udu Local Government Area was returned unopposed.
“The PDP candidates for councillorship positions contested and won 499 electoral wards while the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) won one electoral ward in Oshimili North Local Government Area” he declared.
Certificates of return has been presented to 25 council chairmen.
Similarly in Adamawa state, according to the results released by the State Independent Electoral Commission, all the councillorship seats were also won by the ruling PDP in the 226 wards in the North-East state except the Demsa Ward of the Demsa Local Government Area where the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) won one councillorship seat.
The Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Mohammed Umar, said the ruling party won overwhelmingly in all the 21 local government councils of the state. He announced the results on Sunday evening at the commission’s headquarters in Yola, the state capital.
Umar said out of the 19 registered political parties in the state, 12 participated in the exercise.
