NIGERIA (Yobe) – Result of the just concluded council election in Yobe state has been released with the All Progressives Congress (APC) winning all the 17 Local Government seats in the state.

Announcing the results on Sunday in Damaturu, the Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commission, Mohammed Jauro, said APC secured 999,700 of the 1.2 million votes cast during Saturday’s elections.

Jauro also said the APC secured all the councillorship seats in the same election which was held amid tight security on Saturday.

 “The successful conduct of the polls is a proof that peace has returned to the state,” Mr. Jauro said.

In the same vein, the spokesperson of the Military Joint Task Force in the state, Capt. Eli Lazarus, said there was no report on security challenges during the polls in which ten political parties participated, with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) boycotting the elections.

The PDP had cited the security situation as its reason for not taking part in the elections.