Ebonyi LG election to hold July 20

By Admin 


The Ebonyi State Independent electoral commission, EBSIEC, has fixed the conduct of the local government election in the state for July 20, 2024.

The chairman of  EBSIEC,  Barr. Jossy Eze  who announced this at a meeting with  chairmen/secretaries of political parties and heads of security agencies in the state advised all political parties to take note of the statutory notice for election.

Barr Eze who promised to conduct free, fair and credible election said that the election will hold in the 171 political wards of the state.

He said that political parties will be giving equal playing ground to participate in the election.

"Pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, (as amended), the Ebonyi State Independent Electoral Commission Law, 2001, as amended, andthe Ebonyi Sate Electoral and Related Matters Law, No. 001 of 2017, as amended, and all other powers enabling her in that behalf, the Ebonyi State Independent Electoral Commission DO HEREBY PUBLISH and GIVE NOTICE of LOCAL Governments COUNCIL ELECTIONS IN EBONYI STATE, 2024.

"Further take notice that the Date of Elections (Day of Polls) is Saturday, 20th day of July, 2024,throughout Ebonyi State; and that NOMINATION PAPERS are to be delivered at the Commission's Headquarters, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.

"Also take notice that it is further published in each of the thirteen (13) Local Government Areas and the One Hundred and Seventy-One (171) Electoral Wards in Ebonyi State that elections are to be held" he stated.

Responding, the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Hon. Onyema Nwele said: "We will participate fully in the LG election. We are agreeing to what the EBSIEC said, so far that the election will be free, fair and credible. If that is being done, we will do well in LG election" he stated.

The former special assistant to Ebonyi state government on inter Party dialogue, Mrs. Jennifer Adibe Nwafor said the notice for the local government areas election in the state is apt, and urged the commission to ensure that all political parties are giving equal playing ground to participate in the election.

Also, the state chairman of IPAC, Nwaze Ernest said that political parties may not tolerate the repeat of what happened in the last local government election in the state, and however urged the commission to ensure that the election is free, fair and credible as they promised.