BEVERLY HILLS, June 04, (THEWILL) – The Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC) has announced on Sunday that the All Progressive Congress (APC) had won all the 23 local government chairmanship seats in the elections held on Saturday.
BSIEC Chairman, John Tsuwa, who declared the results in Makurdi, also announced that the party won all the councillorship positions, with some of the candidates returned unopposed.
He however declined to release details of votes scored by the candidates and declared that he would not entertain questions.
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.
