APC Wins 22 Out Of 25 Seats In Niger State LG Council Elections

Niger State Independent Electoral Commission (NSIEC) has announced the outcome of the state’s just concluded Local Government Area Council elections.

Friday in Minna, the state capital, NSIEC Director Operations, Comrade Ibrahim Aliyu Tunganwawa, announced that the All Progressives Congress (APC) won 22 out of the 25 chairmanship seats in the council’s polls conducted on Thursday, November 10, 2022.

Tunganwawa explained that the results of the remaining three LGs are being awaited, adding that 13 political parties took part in the election.

He said: “Due to some problems experienced during the conduct of the local government councils election, NSIEC will conduct rerun elections in two wards of Rafi and Kontagora Local Government Councils.

“The two wards are that of Kusherki and Tungan Kawo, scheduled to hold this Sunday.”

Tunganwawa described the local government council’s election as peaceful and orderly despite some minor hitches.

Three local government councils awaiting results include Katcha, Agwara and Borgu.

Court Sacks 16 Rivers APC State Assembly Candidates (Full List)

Meanwhile, sixteen candidates of the APC contesting for the 2023 elections have been sacked by a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the state capital.

The ruling was handed down on Friday by the presiding judge, Justice Turaki Muhammed, Naija News understands.

The court order followed suit instituted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), arguing that the APC primaries that produced the candidates were not duly monitored by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The affected candidates are from the following constituencies: Andoni, Etche 1 and 2, Tai, Gokana, Eleme, Port Harcourt City 1, 2 and 3, Khana 1 and 2, Okrika, Ahoada West, and Obio-Akpor 1 and 2 constituencies.

Justice Muhammed held that the PDP could prove its case beyond any reasonable doubt.

The Judge, however, cleared seventeen other candidates to participate in the election for their constituencies.

Those cleared are Emohua, Ahoada East 1 and 2, Ikwerre, Omuma, Ogu Bolo, Bonny, Asari Toru, Akuku Toru 1 and 2, Ogba Egbema Ndoni 1 and 2, Opobo-Nkoru, Abual-Odua, Oyigbo and Degema constituencies.