The Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC) has announced that the All Progressive Congress (APC) had won all the 23 local government council seats in the election held on Saturday.
It also announced that the party won all the councillorship positions, noting that some of the candidates were returned unopposed.The BSIEC chairman, John Tsuwa who declared the results in Makurdi, the state capital on Sunday however, declined to release details of votes scored by the candidates.
“The figures are not ready. I will not entertain questions because this is not a press conference,,” he told reporters.
Tsuwa said that eight political parties participated in the exercise and listed them to include Accord Party, APC, PDP, SDP, ACB, PPP, LP and NNPP.
He thanked security agencies for ensuring a smooth conduct of the elections, and expressed happiness that no case of violence or snatching of ballot box was reported throughout the exercise.
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