(UPDATED) LG poll: AA candidate wins chairmanship seat in Rivers
The Action Alliance candidate, Uzodinma Nwafor, has been declared the winner of the chairmanship election in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The Chairman of Rivers State Independent National Electoral Commission, Justice Adolphus Enebeli (retd.), made the declaration on Sunday in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
Enebili also revealed that the AA also clinched all the 19 councillor positions in the local government.
In variance from the regular practice of one party-takes-it-all, the chairman also announced the results for the 3I9 wards councilorship, with the APP maintaining dominance with 314 seats, while the All Progressives Congress, the Labour Party, Social Democratic Party, Young Progressives Party and Boot Party clinching one seat each in Okirika, Asari-Toru, Eleme, Degema, and Ahoada West Local Government Areas.
