Just as it happened in Kaduna, the Kogi State Independent Electoral Commission (KOSIEC) says the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have won the elections conducted in all the 21 local governments and 239 wards in the state.
Mamman Nda-Eric, KOSIEC’s Chairman, who announced the announced the results in Lokoja, described the election as peaceful, free, fair, and credible.
However, the opposition parties and youth leaders said the election is a mockery of democracy.
The CNPP Chairman in Kogi State, Comrade Mohammed Kabir Abdullahi, berated the KOSIEC, saying that there was no LG election in the state.
“This is the biggest mockery in the 21st century. We thought that our democracy has grown, but unknowingly to us, we are 10 steps backward.
“Kogi State Independent Electoral Commission has once again display there incompetency as regards to the conduct of council poll”, he said.
In the same vein, the state organising Secretary of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Abdukadir Ibrahim, alleged that all the electoral materials were diverted to unknown destination, rather than to the local governments for the election.
“I and other opposition were at the KOSIEC headquarters, Lokoja to collect electoral materials for our various parties. To our dismay, all the electoral materials were diverted to unknown places. It was a mockery of election”, he said .
However, the Minister of Steel Development, Prince Shuaibu Abubakar Audu, commended the KOSIEC for the “peaceful conduct as well as the massive turnout of voters across the state.”
Audu said: “My advice is that the winners should do their job in a way that will be impactful to the people”
kogi state governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo, commended the commission and the people of the state for conducting themselves peacefully irrespective of their political affiliations.
