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Borno APC Won All 27 Chairmanship, 312 Councillorship Elections
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Borno APC won All 27 Chairmanship, 312 Councillorship Elections
By Madu Mohammed, Maiduguri.
The Borno State Independent Electoral Commission (BOSIEC) has declared the All Progressive Congress (APC) as the winner of all the 27 local government chairmanship seat and 312 councillorship seats in the state held on Saturday 20th January, 2024.
Declaring the outcome of the election at the BOSIEC headquarters, Maiduguri on Sunday, the chairman Alhaji Lawan Mahmoud said ” by the power vested on me as the Chief Returning Officer of the Borno State Local government elections. I hereby declared the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) as winner of all the 27 chairmanship seat, equally the 312 councilorship seat has been won by the APC. Certificates will be presented on a later date”
“The commission was established by 199 constitution and the Borno state Independent Electoral Commission BOSIEC law 2005 and was empowered to organized and conduct local government election.Following the local government election held on Saturday 20th January, 2024, the commission has received chairmanship result from all the 27 local government areas as empowered by the law”, added.
The result as released by the commission indicates that Abadam, Abubakar Aji Mustapha of the APC scored 41,486 to be elected, unopposed, Askira Uba, Abubakar Marzhni of APC scored 59, 888 to beat his closest rival of PDP who scored 1,888, Bama, Ali Modu Gujja of APC scored 59,524 to against the PDP candidate who scored 2,335.
Others are Bayo, Haruna Aliyu Chibra of ApC scored 27,441 elected unopposed,, Biu, Sule Ali Abubay who scored 91,320 to beat his closest rival of the PDP who scored 3,577, among other local government areas.
The result were coaliated from the 27 local government Returning officers at the BOSIEC headquarters in the presence of security agencies, observers and other stakeholders.
However, the PDP chairman Alhaji Zannah Gadna described the election as selection and that the PDP candidate went into election did it on their own.
