LG poll: 2 Igbo youths win councillorship seats in Plateau
Two Igbo councillorship candidates, Mr Austin Nwachukwu and Okoro Uzoma Anthony, emerged winners in the just concluded Plateau State Local Council elections.
The Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission on Monday presented certificates of return to 304 councillors-elect across the state, including Nwachukwu and Uzoma.
Nwachukwu, from Abia State, was elected to represent Tafawa Bela Ward, in Jos North Local Government Area while Okoro, an indigene of Imo State, was elected councillor for Vanderpuye Ward, also in Jos North Local Government Area.
While presenting the certificates at the INEC headquarters in Jos, the state capital, the commission’s chairman, Plangji Cishak, congratulated the councillors-elect for their victory in the council polls held last Wednesday.
Moreover, the elections in 21 wards were inconclusive, leaving the councillors from those areas without certificates of return.
But the commission, on Monday, said it would conduct the rerun for the conclusion of the local government election held on October 9.
However, the All Progressives Congress, speaking through the state spokesman Shittu Bamaiyi, said the party had yet to take a position on the matter.
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“We have not decided whether to participate in the rerun or not. When we take that decision as a party, we will definitely make it public,” the APC spokesman said.
This is coming after APC rejected the results of the election, where the ruling Peoples Democratic Party won all chairmanship positions across the 17 LGAs.
Speaking at a press conference in Jos on Saturday, the APC State Chairman, Rufus Bature, dismissed the election results as fraudulent.
