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BREAKING: APC sweeps Ondo Local Govt polls
The Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission (ODIEC) has declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of all the 18 chairmanship seats in Saturday’s Local Government elections in the state.
Announcing the election results Sunday evening, the commission’s Chairman, Prof. Yomi Dinakin, said that the party also won 194 councilorship seats out of 198, while the results in the four remaining wards were declared inconclusive.
Only seven of 14 registered political parties participated in the exercise.
Dinakin, who declared the APC candidates winner of the election in the five local government areas, said it was in line with the Electoral Act.
Governor will in October this year go to poll as governorship of the APC.