{"id":43018,"date":"2024-07-21T19:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/apc-sweeps-ebonyi-lg-polls\/"},"modified":"2024-07-21T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T19:00:12","slug":"apc-sweeps-ebonyi-lg-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/apc-sweeps-ebonyi-lg-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"APC sweeps Ebonyi LG polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Ebonyi Independent Electoral Commission, EBSIEC, on Sunday declared that the All Progressives Congress, APC, swept all the available positions in Saturday\u2019s local council polls in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the Commission, Mr Jossey Eze, who announced the results in Abakaliki, said the party won all the 13 LG chairmanship and 171 ward councillorship seats.<\/p>\n<p>Eze said that three political parties, APC, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, and Labour Party, LP, participated in the polls.<\/p>\n<p>Eze announced that the commission has ratified and adopted the chairmanship results for the LGAs as announced by the various councils\u2019 Returning Officers and the Councillorship results announced at the electoral wards.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman expressed joy that the exercise was peaceful and commended the security agencies and all the stakeholders for their support.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked all the stakeholders involved in the conduct of the election for their support and encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe election has been won and lost, but the victory is for everybody who participated in the elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe winners should carry everybody along and everyone should contribute in delivering democratic dividends to people at the grassroots, which the local government areas represent,\u201d Eze advised.<\/p>\n<p>APC sweeps Ebonyi LG polls<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ebonyi Independent Electoral Commission, EBSIEC, on Sunday declared that the All Progressives Congress, APC, swept all the available positions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4242,651,15,3],"tags":[96,654,180,249,128,21688],"class_list":["post-43018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apc","category-ebonyi","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-ebonyi","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-polls","tag-sweeps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}