ANSIEC chair declared APGA winners of all 21 chairmanship seats and 326 councillorship positions in the August 29 Anambra LGA electionYPP's collation agent disclosed that party members were barred from accessing voting materials in Anambra East, where gunshots were reportedSeveral newly elected LGA mayors spoke exclusi…

…retrospectively, having been amended before the November 2, 2024 chairmanship and councillorship polls. “Before the election, we went to the the House of Assembly to amend that law and the House of Assembly gave the local government Mayor’s and their Councillors four years and that was even before the election,” Govern…

…primaries.” The commissioner noted that the same “Yes/No” principle would not apply to councillorship elections, adding that councillors would emerge through the normal voting process. Chinedu disclosed that 22 candidates had been screened for the 21 local government chairmanship positions. The All Progressives Grand A…

The All Progressives Congress has won all 13 chairmanship and 171 councillorship seats contested in the Ebonyi State local government elections. According to Vanguard, the results were announced on Sunday by the Chairman of the Ebonyi State Independent Electoral Commission, Patrick Enyi, at the commission’s office on O…

…with candidates of the ruling party emerging across the 13 chairmanship and 171 councillorship positions. Onwe noted that the election was also subsequently nullified by the Federal High Court, Abakaliki, on Oct. 21, 2025. He alleged that the court also restrained EBSIEC and the state government from conducting another…

…the local government elections, with the APM winning all 20 chairmanship seats and 319 councillorship seats in the latest election.

…chairmanship candidate, while the maximum campaign expenditure for an Area Council councillorship election is N10m. The law also places a ceiling on individual contributions to candidates, providing that no individual donor may contribute more than N500m to a single candidate. Section 92 further provides sanctions for…

…Commission. The commission also declared APM candidates winners in 319 of the 323 councillorship seats contested across the state. The Chairperson of BASIEC, Jummai Abubakar, announced the results after the conclusion of voting, counting, collation and verification of results. Abubakar said, “Following the conclusion o…

The chairmanship and councillorship candidates of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), who participated in the June 13, 2026, local government election in Adamawa State, have rejected its outcome. Describing the election as a charade, the candidates are calling for a fresh poll. The election in question produced chai…

…parties had already met. "Our party won over 50 local governments and more than 170 councillorship seats. ADC also won elections. Accord also won elections. Those facts were before the judge." He maintained that INEC's position alone should have settled the matter. "INEC is the only body empowered by the Constitution t…