By Akinwale Kasali
The viral video of two women busy thump-printing voters’ cards in their hundreds, was the face of the Lagos State Local Government Election.
Yet, no results were cancelled.
This thus marked another woeful failure by the Peoples Democratic Party in elections in Lagos.
So, in at once, a one-sided election and a no-election, the All Progressives Congress, APC, was declared the winner in all 20 Local Government and 37 Local Council Development Area seats in the Saturday July 24, 2021, Council polls.
Even though there was an embarrassing low turn-out of voters, which marred the polls, as usual, APC won in a landslide.
Since the emergence of Democratic Rule in Lagos State in 1999, the Party at the helm of affairs in the State has always won the Council Polls, making it a one party affair.
The Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC, released the result at its office on Birrel Road, Sabo, Yaba, Lagos, sending the APC faithfuls into wild jubilation.
But in a swift reaction to the results, the Accord Party dismissed the polls as a huge fraud, and said it is heading for a legal action to challenge the results.
The results were announced by Returning Officers at all the 57 Collation Centres in the State.
There were jubilation and victory songs in all Councils.
Interestingly, it was a double celebration for the National President of Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON, Kolade Alabi, who was re-elected in Bariga LCDA for another four-year term.
Alabi was recently re-elected as ALGON President in Abuja, the country’s capital.
He promised to continue to deliver good governance for the people in Bariga and all council officials across the nation.
For the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, it is again a woeful outing in Lagos, a State it has consistently lost since 1999.
