Sentences with phrase «local government council poll»
«OYSIEC had announced on Saturday that it was again extending the deadline for the political parties participating in the May 12, 2018 local government council poll to conclude their party primaries owing to issues relating to the delineation of wards exercise recently carried out in the state.
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The council poll would be carried out simultaneously for the positions of chairmen and Councillors in the 17 Local Government Areas and 261 political wards in the state.
APC won 14 chairmanship seats in the council polls and PDP won four seats, while elections were rescheduled in five local government areas.
Interestingly, the local government has 120,827 registered voters, the second highest after Yenagoa with 135,025 registered voters, hence the desperation of both parties to carry the day in the council, which has turned out to be the beautiful bride in the Bayelsa 2015 governorship poll.
The ComRes poll for the Local Government Association (LGA) suggested overwhelming support for councils» self - professed «triumph» in dealing with low - level disturbances.
Yet while over 150 councils have council seats up for grabs, all eyes will inevitably be on the 32 London boroughs, with expert polling and media speculation pointing to a significantly different local government landscape once the ballot papers have been counted on May 4th.
Ex-Real IRA prisoner Gary Donnelly is on course to take a council set in Derry city after polling more than 1,100 first preference votes in local government elections today.