Expressing their displeasure at what they described as a lack of coordination within the government, a civil servant in the state, who gave her name as Bakri, voiced her dismay at how the government disrupted her plans for the day.

According to her, she and her colleagues waited in the office until 4 p.m. on Thursday, expecting a circular regarding a public holiday 24 hours before Saturday’s election. However, no such notification had been sent before they left the office.

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Bakri revealed that she became frustrated when a junior colleague phoned her at around 8:00 pm to inform her that a work-free day had been declared.

Emphasising that she had planned to clear her workload before the weekend, she noted that the government’s delay would cause the work to spill into the following week while noting it would also affect the traveling of people to their various towns.

Similarly, a parent, Seyi Adu, lamented that she only learned about the holiday upon arriving at her son’s school, where teachers at the gate asked parents to take their children back home.

Adu stated that she drove from Ijapo to Aule Road, only to be told there was no school because of a one-day holiday declared by the government, adding that she wasn’t even aware that Saturday is election day.

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ANSIEC revealed this in a publication of final list of candidates in Awka, the state capital.

According to ANSIEC, the political parties participating in the elections include Action Alliance, AA, Accord Party, All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Labour Party, LP, New Nigeria Peoples’ Party, NNPP, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Others are Zenith Labour Party, ZLP, Young Progressives Party, YPP, and Social Democratic Party, SDP.

APGA was said to be the only party to field candidates for all the 21 chairmanship and 326 councillorship positions, while PDP fielded 18 out of the 21 chairmanship and 228 out of the 326 ward councillorship positions.

NNPP fielded eight candidates out of the 21 chairmanship and 37 candidates out the 326 councillorship positions while LP fielded six candidate for chairmanship and 12 for councillorship positions.

Accord Party fielded four candidates for chairmanship and four for councillorship positions, while YPP fielded three candidates for chairmanship and 44 for councillorship positions.

AA fielded one candidate each for chairmanship and councillorship positions, while SDP fielded one candidate for chairmanship nine for councillorship positions.

ZLP only fielded four candidates for councillorship position.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, did not field candidates as it officially withdrew from the local government elections, citing concerns over electoral irregularities.

The party announced its decision on September 8, and revealed plans to challenge the election process in court.

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This is as members of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the State loyal to the care taker committee Chairman ,  Tony Okocha, said,  that they will not participate in the October 5th, electoral exercise due to some procedural flaws.

Speaking on behalf of the APC members at an enlarged stakeholders meeting in Port Harcourt,  Tony Okocha said that  the decision to boycott the election was because the process of conducting the election is not in tandem with any known law.

Okocha said that the party has already gone to court to stop all the processes of conducting the election because it does not follow all the due processes of law.

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