Peoples Democratic Party, PDP won all the 16 chairmanship and 177 councilorship positions contested for in the local government elections that held in the Ekiti State on Saturday.
The PDP candidates emerged victorious in the election conducted by the State Independent Electoral Commission, SIEC, which said five political parties indicated interest to participate in the poll.
The elected chairmen are expected to be inaugurated today by the state governor after they might have received their Certificates of Return from SIEC.
In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Idowu Adelusi, said all the new chairmen, party leaders, traditional rulers and guests of the chairmen were expected to attend the occasion.
This was as the governor said the successful conduct of the council election by his administration “is a promise made to the people that has been kept”.
The governor, who spoke in Afao-Ekiti yesterday, described the use of caretaker committees to run local government system as an aberration, saying “the hallmark of a genuine democrat was allowing people to express their choice on who governs them”.
Credit: NationalMirror
