APC sweeps Borno local government areas election

The All Progressives Congress in Borno State has won all the 27 chairmanship and 312 councillor positions in Saturday’s council poll.

Chairman, Borno State Independent Electoral Commission, Alhaji Lawan Maina, said this on Sunday in Maiduguri. 

Main said: “Following the conduct of the election on Saturday, today we have received results from the 27 LGAs and as empowered by the law under Section 10.

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“In my position as the Chief Returning Officer of the state, I read out the results as follows:

“The ruling party, APC, won all the 27 Local Government Chairmen in the state.

“Equally, the ruling party has won all the 312 council members (councillors) in all the wards of the state.

“With this, we have come to the end of this exercise and the certificate presentation to the winners will be made at a later date to be announced soon.”