APC SWEEPS COUNCIL POLLS IN YOBE

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won all 17 chairmanship seats in the Yobe local government elections.
Announcing the results on Sunday in Damaturu, Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commission, Alhaji Mohammed Jauro, said APC secured 999,700 of the 1.2 milion votes cast during Saturday’s elections.
He said the party also won the entire councillorship seats.
The chairman said the electoral body did not receive any complaints from any quarters on the conduct of the elections.
“The successful conduct of the polls is a proof that peace has returned to the state,’’ Jauro said.
There were fears that the poor security situation in the state, following the Boko Haram insurgency, would affect the polls’ conduct.
However, the spokesman of the Military Joint Task Force in the state, Capt. Eli Lazarus, told NAN that the force did not receive any report of security breach during the polls.
Ten political parties participated in the elections, with the main opposition party in the state, the PDP, boycotting the polls.
The party had cited the security situation as its reason for not taking part in the elections