Ebonyi: EBSIEC announces date for local government elections

Local government elections are scheduled for July 20, 2024, by the Ebonyi State Independent Electoral Commission, or EBSIEC. 

The elections are for the state’s 171 political wards and 13 local government areas, according to a statement made on Thursday by Barrister Josy Eze, the Chairman of the EBSIEC. 

Eze said this at a meeting held at the commission’s offices in Abakiliki, the state’s capital, with chairmen and secretaries of various political parties and chiefs of security agencies. 

Political parties, he clarified, had to take an active part in the process by visiting the commission to select their nomination forms. 

“Under the provision of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,1999,(as amended), the Ebonyi State Independent Electoral Commission Law, 2001, as amended, and the Ebonyi State 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 government council elections in Ebonyi State 2024.

“Further take notice that the date of elections ( day of polls) is Saturday, 20 day of July, 2024 throughout Ebonyi state; and that Nomination papers are to be delivered at the commission’s headquarters, No.1 Onwe road, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.

“Also take notice that it is further published in each of the thirteen local government areas and the one hundred and seventy-one electoral wards in Ebonyi state that elections are to be held,” the Chairman said.

According to information obtained by ZINGTIE, the EBSIEC Chairman’s term will end on July 31, 2024. 

Additionally, it was learned that many ward council members and chairs of local governments have voiced concerns ever since the elections were announced. 

Nonetheless, indigenes have expressed satisfaction, stating they will elect capable community leaders to deal with their problems. 

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