General elections into the local government system in Delta State are due to hold on Saturday, January 6, 2018. The polls are for the chairmanship and councillorship positions in the 25 local governments of the state.
This was disclosed by the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, DSIEC, in a programme/timeline schedule released yesterday in Asaba, the state capital. The schedule was signed by the Chairman of DSIEC, Mike Ogbodu.
The timelines showed that run-off elections, if any, would hold two weeks later; on January 20, 2018. Ogbodu said that yesterday marked the issuance of notice of the elections, release of the guidelines and time table, while the conduct of party primaries for the chairmanship and councillorship positions by the various political parties would span a two-week period from Saturday, October 14, 2017, to Saturday, October 28, 2017.
Ogbodu said that campaigns for the elections would end on Thursday, January 4, 2018, while actual polling would hold two days later on January 6, 2018.
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