Sentences with phrase «hands at the local elections»

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It's a significant moment in the political calendar made all the more salient after both the Tories and Lib Dems received a drubbing in local elections at the hands of UKIP last week.

At a recent gathering of the ruling party, All Progressive Congress, APC, where flags were handed over to the flag bearers of the party in the just concluded local government elections, Governor Nasir el - Rufai had asked God to punish the Senators from the State for refusing to support Kaduna State $ 350 million loan request from the World Bank.

As with voting intention polls, if you look at oppositions that went on to win the next election, they won mid-term local elections hands down.

The governor, who was speaking at the official handing over of party flags to the candidates of the All Progressive Congress (APC) ahead of the local government elections into the 23 local government area at the Kaduna township stadium, described the senators as enemies of the state's progress.