PDP coasts to victory in Delta state ward elections winning all 22 chairmanship seats

The PDP has maintained its grip on Delta state as the opposition party swept to victory in the just concluded Local Government elections. The party won all 22 chairmanship seats and all but one councillorship position. This is according to the Delta st

ate independent electoral commission.

The lone councillorship position won by the All Progressives Congress, APC was in Ward 2, Aniocha North local government area, the base of the minister of state for petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu. 57 PDP councillorship candidates were returned unopposed, the party won 424 councillorship seats contested for while the APC won one seat in Aniocha North.