Delta LG Election: PDP wins all 25 chairmanship seats

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won all 25 local government chairmanship seats in the Delta Local Government election held across the state on Saturday.

The party also clinched 499 of the 500 councillorship seats, losing one to the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) in Oshimili North Local Government Area (LGA).

Dr Jerry Agbaike, the Chief Electoral Officer and Chairman, Delta State Independent Electoral Commission (DSIEC), announced the results at the commission’s headquarters in Asaba on Sunday.

Agbaike said election was, however, not held in Udu LGA as the PDP chairmanship candidate was returned unopposed.

The DSIEC chairman also issued Certificates of Return to the elected LG chairmen to mark the end of the exercise.